Isaiah 36:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 36:5

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

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ASV

I say, thy counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

KJV

I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I say, sayest thou - In 2Ki 18:20, this is ‘thou sayest;’ and thus many manuscripts read it here, and Lowth and Noyes have adopted that reading. So the Syriac reads it. But the sense is not affected whichever reading is adopted. It is designed to show to Hezekiah that his reliance, either on his own resources or on Egypt, was vain. But they are but vain words - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘A word of lips;’ that is, mere words; vain and empty boasting.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The history related here, and in the three following chapters, is, almost in the same words contained 2 Kings 18, 19, 20. It is inserted here, to explain and confirm some of the foregoing predictions.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙	'a.Mar.ti	I say	H559 →
אַךְ־	'akh-	only	H389 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	a word of	H1697 →
שְׂפָתַ֔יִם	se.fa.Ta.yim	lips	H8193 →
עֵצָ֥ה	'e.Tzah	[are] a plan	H6098 →
וּגְבוּרָ֖ה	u.ge.vu.Rah	and strength	H1369 →
לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה	la.mil.cha.Mah	for <the> war	H4421 →
עַתָּה֙	'a.Tah	now	H6258 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מִ֣י	mi	whom?	H4310 →
בָטַ֔חְתָּ	va.Tach.ta	do you rely	H982 →
כִּ֥י	ki	that	H3588 →
מָרַ֖דְתָּ	ma.Rad.ta	you have rebelled	H4775 →
בִּֽי׃	Bi	against me

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 17:15
But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:13
  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
2 Kings 24:1
During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
leads to
- Daniel 1:1
  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
- Jeremiah 25:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king…
Through
2 Kings 18:7
And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.
leads to
- 2 Kings 16:7
  So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are…
- Romans 8:31
  What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Genesis 39:2–3
  And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.
- Psalms 60:12
  With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Psalms 1:3
  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah