Isaiah 37:9

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
heard	וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע vai.yish.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
say	לֵאמֹ֔ר le.Mor	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
Tirhakah	תִּרְהָ֤קָה tir.Ha.kah	H8640	Tirhakah · proper noun, a man's name
king	מֶֽלֶךְ Me.lekh-	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
Ethiopia	כּוּשׁ֙ kush	H3568	Cush (or Ethiopia) · proper noun, a place name
forth	יָצָ֖א ya.Tza'	H3318	to go (causatively · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
war	לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם le.hi.la.Chem	H3898	to feed on · preposition + verb, niphal infinitive construct
heard	וַיִּשְׁמַע֙ vai.yish.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
sent	וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח vai.yish.Lach	H7971	to send away · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
messengers	מַלְאָכִ֔ים mal.'a.Khim	H4397	a messenger · noun, common masculine plural absolute
Hezekiah	חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ chiz.ki.Ya.hu	H2396	Chizkijah · proper noun, a man's name
saying	לֵאמֹֽר le.Mor	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct

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Cross-references

1 Samuel 23:27-28 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in h…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:8-20

We may observe here, 1. That, if God give us inward satisfaction in his promise, this may confirm us in our silently bearing reproaches. God answered Hezekiah, but it does not appear that he, after deliberation, sent any answer to Rabshakeh; but, God having taken the work into his own hands, he quietly left the matter with him. So Rabshakeh returned to the king his master for fresh instructions. 2. Those that delight in war shall have enough of it. Sennacherib, without provocation given to him or warning given by him, went forth to war against Judah; and now with as little ceremony the king of Ethiopia goes forth to war against him, Isa 37:9. Those that are quarrelsome may expect to be quarr…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 37:9

Tirhakah--(See on Isa 17:12; Isa 18:6). Egypt was in part governed by three successive Ethiopian monarchs, for forty or fifty years: Sabacho, Sevechus, and Tirhakah. Sevechus retired from Lower Egypt owing to the resistance of the priests, whereupon Sethos, a prince-priest, obtained supreme power with Tanis (Zoan in Scripture), or Memphis, as his capital. The Ethiopians retained Upper Egypt under Tirhakah, with Thebes as the capital. Tirhakah's fame as a conqueror rivalled that of Sesostris; he, and one at least, of the Pharaohs of Lower Egypt, were Hezekiah's allies against Assyria. The tidings of his approach made Sennacherib the more anxious to get possession of Jerusalem before his arriv…

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John Gill on Isaiah 37:9

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,.... Not Rabshakeh, but the king of Assyria heard a rumour of this Ethiopian king coming out to war against him: his name, in Josephus (w), is Tharsices; in the Septuagint version it is Tharaca; and by Africanus (x) he is called Taracus; and is the same, who, by Strabo (y), out of Megasthenes, is named Tearcon the Ethiopian: the Ethiopia of which he was king was either the upper Ethiopia or that beyond Egypt; to which agrees the Arabic version, which calls him Tharatha king of the Abyssines; but others take it for Cush, or rather Ethiopia in the land of Midian, or Arabia, as Bochart; which lay nearer to Judea than the other Ethiopia. Now…

Dictionary and topics

Egypt — The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original…
Tirhakah — The last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty. He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia (2…
Tirhakah, Or Tirhakah — (exalted?) king of Ethiopia (Cush), the opponent of Sennacherib. (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9) He may be identified with Tarkos or Tarakos, who was the third and last king of the twenty-fifth dynasty,…
Letters · Rabshakeh to Hezekiah — Rabshakeh to Hezekiah
Libnah · .Sennacherib besieged; his army — .Sennacherib besieged; his army
Tirhakah · A king of Ethiopia — A king of Ethiopia

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 37:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:8-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 37:9

John Gill on Isaiah 37:9

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Isaiah 37:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:8-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 37:9

John Gill on Isaiah 37:9

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 37:9

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 37:8-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 37:9

Rashi on Isaiah 37:9