Isaiah 37:13 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 37:13

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

KJV

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The king of Hamath - (See the note at Isa 36:19). Hena and Ivah - Hena is mentioned in 2Ki 18:34; 2Ki 19:13. It was evidently in Mesopotamia, and was probably the same which was afterward called Ana, situated near a ford of the Euphrates. The situation of Ivah is not certainly known. It was under the Assyrian dominion, and was one of the places from which colonists were brought to Samaria 2Ki 17:24, 2Ki 17:31. Michaelis supposes that it was between Berytus and Tripoli, but was under the dominion of the Assyrians.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַיֵּ֤ה	'ai.Yeh	where?	H346 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[is] [the] king of	H4428 →
חֲמָת֙	cha.Mat	Hamath	H2574 →
וּמֶ֣לֶךְ	u.Me.lekh	and [the] king of	H4428 →
אַרְפָּ֔ד	'ar.Pad	Arpad	H774 →
וּמֶ֖לֶךְ	u.Me.lekh	and [the] king of	H4428 →
לָעִ֣יר	la.'Ir	Lair	H5892 →
סְפַרְוָ֑יִם	se.far.Va.yim	Sepharvaim	H5617 →
הֵנַ֖ע	he.Na'	Hena	H2012 →
וְעִוָּֽה׃	ve.'i.Vah	and Ivvah	H5755 →

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
Isaiah 36:19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
leads to
- Jeremiah 49:23
  Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 34:8
  and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 10:9–11
  “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Isaiah 37:11–13
  Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
- 2 Kings 17:5–7
  Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
Through
2 Kings 19:13
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:34
  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Through
Isaiah 10:9
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 35:20
  After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
- 2 Kings 16:9
  So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

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