Isaiah 36:1

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria [Level plain] attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah [Praised], and captured them.

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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

2The king of Assyria [Level plain] sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem [City of peace] to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate. 2 Your cities are burned with fire. 2 Strangers devour your land in your presence, 2 and it is desolate, 2 as overthrown by strangers. 1

Isaiah 7:20In that day 'Adonay [Lord] will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria [Level plain], the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 8:8It will sweep onward into Judah [Praised]. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, 'Immanu El [God is with us]. + 8:8. Quoted in Rev 21:3

Isaiah 33:7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; 2 the ambassadors of peace 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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