Isaiah 37:1

And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes,—and covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2and sent Eliakim who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,—unto Isaiah the prophet, Son of Amoz;

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:1And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard, that he rent his clothes,—and covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh;

2 Chronicles 32:20And Hezekiah the king and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this,-and made outcry unto the heavens,

Esther 4:1When, Mordecai, came to know all that had been done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and ashes,—and went forth into the midst of the city, and cried out with an outcry loud and bitter;

Isaiah 22:12And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day,—for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,

Isaiah 37:14And, when Hezekiah had received the letter at the hand of the messengers, and had read it, then went he up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out, before Yahweh.

Jonah 3:5And the people of Nineveh believed in God,—and proclaimed a fast, and clothed themselves in sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even unto the least of them.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:1

In this chapter we have a further repetition of the story which we had before in the book of Kings concerning Sennacherib. In the foregoing chapter we had him conquering and threatening to conquer. In this chapter we have him falling, and at last fallen, in answer to prayer, and in fulfillment of many of the prophecies which we have met with in the foregoing chapters. Here we have, I. Hezekiah's pious reception of Rabshakeh's impious discourse, ver. 1 . II. The gracious message he sent to Isaiah to desire his… Read the whole commentary →

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