Isaías 37:1

1 Ezequías busca la ayuda del Señor
Cuando el rey Ezequías oyó el informe, rasgó su ropa, se vistió de tela áspera y entró al templo del Señor
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Isaías 37:1 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:1

And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it
The report that his ministers made to him of the blasphemies and threatenings of Rabshakeh, the general of the Assyrian army: that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth;
the one because of the blasphemies he heard; the other cause of the destruction he and his people were threatened with: and went into the house of the Lord;
the temple, to pray to him there: he could have prayed in his own house, but he chose rather to go to the house of God, not so much on account of the holiness of the place, but because there the Lord promised, and was used to hear the prayers of his people, 1Ki 8:29,30
as also because it was more public, and would be known to the people, and set them an example to follow him in. Trouble should not keep persons from, but bring them to, the house of God; here the Lord is to be inquired of, here he is to be found; and from hence he sends deliverance and salvation to his people. Nothing is more proper than prayer in times of affliction; it is no ways unbecoming nor lessening the greatest king on earth to lay aside his royal robes, to humble himself before God, in a time of distress, and pray unto him. Hezekiah does not sit down to consider Rabshakeh's speech, to take it in pieces, and give an answer to it, but he applies unto God.

Isaías 37:1 In-Context

1 Ezequías busca la ayuda del Señor
Cuando el rey Ezequías oyó el informe, rasgó su ropa, se vistió de tela áspera y entró al templo del Señor
.

2 Enseguida envió a Eliaquim, administrador del palacio; a Sebna, secretario de la corte; y a los principales sacerdotes, todos vestidos de tela áspera, a hablar con el profeta Isaías, hijo de Amoz.

3 Ellos le dijeron: «El rey Ezequías dice: “Hoy es un día de dificultad, insulto y deshonra. Es como cuando un niño está a punto de nacer, pero la madre no tiene fuerzas para dar a luz.

4 Tal vez el Señor
tu Dios haya oído al jefe del Estado Mayor
asirio, que fue enviado por el rey para desafiar al Dios viviente, y lo castigue por sus palabras. ¡Te rogamos que ores por los que hemos quedado!”».

5 Una vez que los funcionarios del rey Ezequías le dieron a Isaías el mensaje del rey,