Isaiah 36:1

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth shanah of Melech Chizkiyah, that Sancheriv Melech Ashur came up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

In Context

2And Melech Ashur sent Rav Shakeh from Lakhish to Yerushalayim unto Melech Chizkiyah with a large army. And he stood by the te'alat haberekhah haelyonah (aqueduct of the Upper Pool) on the highway of the sadeh of the launderer.

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Cross References

2 Kings 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of Melech Chizkiyah did Sancheriv Melech Ashur come up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them.

2 Chronicles 12:4And he captured the arei hametzurot (fortified cities) which are of Yehudah, and came as far as Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, 1 your cities are burned with eish; 1 your land, zarim devour it in your presence, 1 and it is desolate, as overthrown by zarim. 1

Isaiah 7:20In the same yom shall Adonoi shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by Melech Ashur, the head, and the hair of the legs; and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 8:8And he shall swirl into Yehudah; 1 he shall overflow and go over, 1 he shall reach even to the neck; 1 and the stretching out of his wings 1 shall fill the breadth of Thy eretz, O Immanu El. 1

Isaiah 33:7Behold, their valiant ones shall cry in the street; 1 the malachei shalom shall weep bitterly. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:1

The prophet Isaiah is, in this and the three following chapters, an historian; for the scripture history, as well as the scripture prophecy, is given by inspiration of God, and was dictated to holy men. Many of the prophecies of the foregoing chapters had their accomplishment in Sennacherib's invading Judah and besieging Jerusalem, and the miraculous defeat he met with there; and therefore the story of this is here inserted, both for the explication and for the confirmation of the prophecy. The key of prophecy is… Read the whole commentary →

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