Isaías 36:19

19 ¿Dónde está el dios de Hamat y de Arfad? ¿Dónde está el dios de Sefarvaim? ¿Libraron a Samaria de mi mano

Isaías 36:19 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad?
&c.] What is become of them? where are they to be found? where's their power to protect and defend the people they presided over? thus they might be justly derided, but not so the God at Israel; these places are mentioned in ( Isaiah 10:9 ) . Hamath was a city in Syria, thought by some to be the same afterwards called Antiochia and Epiphania, from Antiochus Epiphanes: Arphad is joined with it in ( Jeremiah 49:23 ) as a city of Syria; perhaps originally founded and inhabited by the Arvadite, mentioned with the Hamathite, in ( Genesis 10:18 ) : where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
another place in Syria, the city Sipphore; not the Sipphara of Ptolemy ^F14, in Mesopotamia, or that, near Babylon, Abydenus ^F15 makes mention of, but a city in Syro-Phoenicia, ( 2 Kings 17:24 ) : and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
the gods of the above places, which were worshipped in Samaria, or the gods peculiar to that place; though Samaria was not taken by the present king of Assyria, Sennacherib, but by a predecessor of his, Shalmaneser, 2Ki 17:3,6,
which yet is here boasted of as a conquest of the present king.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Geograph. l. 5. c. 18.
F15 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 457.

Isaías 36:19 In-Context

17 Hasta que yo venga, y os lleve a una tierra como la vuestra, tierra de grano y de vino, tierra de pan y de viñas

18 Mirad no os engañe Ezequías diciendo: El SEÑOR nos librará. ¿Libraron los dioses de los gentiles cada uno a su tierra de la mano del rey de Asiria

19 ¿Dónde está el dios de Hamat y de Arfad? ¿Dónde está el dios de Sefarvaim? ¿Libraron a Samaria de mi mano

20 ¿Qué dios hay entre todos los dioses de estas tierras, que haya librado su tierra de mi mano, para que el SEÑOR libre de mi mano a Jerusalén

21 Mas callaron, y no le respondieron palabra, porque el Rey así lo había mandado, diciendo: No le respondáis