Isaiah 36:1

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2Then did the king of Assyria send Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto King Hezekiah with a heavy force,—and he took his stand by the upper channel of the pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field.

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Cross References

2 Kings 18:13And, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, came up Sennacherib king of Assyria, against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

2 Chronicles 12:4And he captured the cities of defence which belonged to Judah,—and came, as far as Jerusalem.

Isaiah 1:7Your country—is a desolation, Your cities—are consumed with fire,—Your soil—right before your eyes, foreigners are devouring it, And it is a desolation a very overthrow by foreigners;

Isaiah 7:20In that day, will My Lord shave, with a hired razor, even with them of the lands over the River Euphrates, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet,—yea, even the beard, will it sweep off.

Isaiah 8:8and roll on throughout Judah—overflow and pass along, till unto the neck, he shall reach,—and it shall be, that, the stretching out of his wings, shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!

Isaiah 33:7Lo! their heroes, have cried out openly,—the messengers of peace, in bitterness, continue weeping [they say]:

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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