2 Kings 19:3

He said to them, “Tell this to Isaiah: ‘King Hezekiah says that we are having great distress/trouble now. Other nations are causing us to be insulted and disgraced. We are like [MET] a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she does not have the strength that she needs to do it.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

In Context

2He summoned Eliakim and Shebna and the ◄older/most important► priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, and told them to talk to me.

4Perhaps Yahweh your God has heard everything that the official from Assyria said. Perhaps he knows that his boss/master, the king of Assyria, sent him to insult the all-powerful God, and that Yahweh will rebuke/punish him for what he said.’ And he requests that you pray for the few of us who are still alive here in Jerusalem.”

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Cross References

Psalms 39:11When you rebuke someone and punish him for the sin that he has committed, you destroy the things that ◄he loves/are precious to him►, like moths’ larva destroy clothing. Our lives disappear like a puff of wind. (Think about that!)

Psalms 123:3Yahweh, be very merciful [DOU] to us because our enemies have acted very contemptuously toward us.

Isaiah 66:9Women certainly do not [RHQ] bring infants to the time when they are ready to be born and then do not allow them to be born. Similarly, he will do for Jerusalem [MET] what he has promised to do: He will cause Jerusalem to be full of people again. That will happen because Yahweh has said it.

Hosea 5:15After that, I will return to my place in heaven until they admit that they have sinned [MTY] and return to me; when they will experience many troubles, they will request me to help them.”

Hebrews 3:15We can do this by paying attention to what the Psalmist wrote in that Scripture passage in which God said, Now, when you hear me speaking to you(pl) [MTY], do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors stubbornly disobeyed me when they rebelled against me.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:2-8

Hezekiah's Sends to Isaiah. ( b. c. 710.) 1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord . 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and… Read the whole commentary →

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