2 Reis 19:1

1 Quando o rei Ezequias ouviu isto rasgou as suas vestes, cobriu-se de saco, e entrou na casa do Senhor.

2 Reis 19:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:1

And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it
The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter,

that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth;
rent his clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth, in token of mourning, for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple, to pray unto him. The message he sent to Isaiah, with his answer, and the threatening letter of the king of Assyria, Hezekiah's prayer upon it, and the encouraging answer he had from the Lord, with the account of the destruction of the Assyrian army, and the death of Sennacherib, are the same "verbatim" as in ( Isaiah 37:1 ) throughout; and therefore the reader is referred thither for the exposition of them; only would add what Rauwolff ^F20 observes, that still to this day (1575) there are two great holes to be seen, wherein they flung the dead bodies (of the Assyrian army), one whereof is close by the road towards Bethlehem, the other towards the right hand against old Bethel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Travels, par. 3. ch. 22. p. 317.

2 Reis 19:1 In-Context

1 Quando o rei Ezequias ouviu isto rasgou as suas vestes, cobriu-se de saco, e entrou na casa do Senhor.

2 Então enviou Eliaquim, o mordomo, e Sebna, o escrivão, e os anciãos dos sacerdotes, cobertos de sacos, ao profeta Isaías, filho de Amoz.

3 Eles lhe disseram: Assim diz Ezequias: Este dia é dia de angústia, de vituperação e de blasfêmia; porque os filhos chegaram ao parto, e não há força para os dar � luz.

4 Bem pode ser que o Senhor teu Deus tenha ouvido todas as palavras de Rabsaque, a quem o seu senhor, o rei da Assiria, enviou para afrontar o Deus vivo, e repreenda as palavras que o senhor teu Deus ouviu. Faze, pois, oração pelo resto que ainda fica.

5 Foram, pois, os servos do rei Ezequias ter com Isaias.