Isaiah 37:6

6 Isaiah answered them, "Say this to your master, 'This is what the LORD says: Don't be afraid of the message that you heard when the Assyrian king's assistants slandered me.

Isaiah 37:6 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:6

And Isaiah said unto them, thus shall you say unto your master,
&c.] Or, "your lord" ^F17; King Hezekiah, whose ministers and messengers they were: thus saith the Lord, be not afraid of the words thou hast heard;
be not not terrified by them, they are but words, and no more, and will never become facts: wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me;
by representing him as no better than the gods of the Gentiles, and as unable to deliver out of the hands of the king of Assyria the city of Jerusalem, when he had said he would. The word ^F18 for "servants" signifies boys, lads, young men; so Rabshakeh and his two companions, Rabsaris and Tartan, are called, by way of contempt, they acting a weak and childish part as well as a wicked one.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Mkynda la) "ad dominum vestrum", Montanus.
F18 (yren) "pueri recens nati, infantes, pueri judicio", Gusset.

Isaiah 37:6 In-Context

4 The LORD your God may have heard the words of the field commander. His master, the king of Assyria, sent him to defy the living God. The LORD your God may punish him because of the message that the LORD your God heard. Pray for the few people who are left."

5 So King Hezekiah's men went to Isaiah.

6 Isaiah answered them, "Say this to your master, 'This is what the LORD says: Don't be afraid of the message that you heard when the Assyrian king's assistants slandered me.

7 I'm going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own country. I'll have him assassinated in his own country.'"

8 The field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. He had heard that the king left Lachish.