2 Kings 19:3-13

3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for children have come to birth and there is no strength to deliver.

4 '¹Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent ²to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for ³the remnant that is left.' "

5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD, "Do not be afraid because * of the words that you have heard, with which the ⁴servants of the king of Assyria ⁵have blasphemed Me.

7 "Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that ⁶he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And ⁷I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.""'

Sennacherib Defies God

8 Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against ⁸Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left ⁹Lachish.

9 When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "Behold, he has come out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying,

10 "Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, 'Do not ¹⁰let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, "¹¹Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

11 'Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

12 '¹²Did the gods of those nations which my fathers destroyed deliver them, even ¹³Gozan and ¹⁴Haran and Rezeph and ¹⁵the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

13 '¹⁶Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?' "

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2 Kings 19:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 19

This chapter relates that King Hezekiah, on a report made to him of Rabshakeh's speech, sent a message to the prophet Isaiah to pray for him, who returned him a comfortable and encouraging answer, 2Ki 19:1-7 and that upon Rabshakeh's return to the king of Assyria, he sent to Hezekiah a terrifying letter, 2Ki 19:8-13, which Hezekiah spread before the Lord, and prayed unto him to save him and his people out of the hands of the king of Assyria, 2Ki 19:14-19, to which he had a gracious answer sent him by the prophet Isaiah, promising him deliverance from the Assyrian army, 2Ki 19:20-34, which accordingly was destroyed by an angel in one night, and Sennacherib fleeing to Nineveh, was slain by his two sons, 2Ki 19:35-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. Joshua 14:12; 2 Samuel 16:12
2. 2 Kings 18:35
3. Isaiah 1:9
4. 2 Kings 18:17
5. 2 Kin 18:22-25, 30, 35
6. 2 Kings 7:6
7. 2 Kings 19:37
8. Joshua 10:29
9. 2 Kings 18:14
10. 2 Kings 18:5
11. 2 Kings 18:30
12. 2 Kings 18:33
13. 2 Kings 17:6
14. Genesis 11:31
15. Isaiah 37:12
16. 2 Kings 18:34

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "he"
[b]. Or "Ethiopia"
[c]. Lit "Judah, saying,"
[d]. Lit "delivered"
[e]. Lit "the"