Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word. ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh. ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”
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Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.
‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”
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And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
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And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD.
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.'
Cross-references (15)
- 2 Kings 24:13 (v17) He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of…
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 (v18) Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and…
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 (v17) At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made…
- 2 Kings 24:12 (v18) and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers;…
- Jeremiah 27:21-22 (v17) yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of…
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- Jeremiah 52:17-19 (v17) The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in…
- 2 Kings 25:13-15 (v17) The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and…
- Daniel 1:3 (v18) The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring…
- Leviticus 26:19 (v17) I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
- 1 Kings 22:19 (v16) Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right…
- 2 Kings 7:1 (v16) Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of…
- 2 Kings 25:6 (v18) Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 (v17) All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes,…
- Isaiah 1:10 (v16) Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
- Amos 7:16 (v16) Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv16–18 2Ki 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the…
2Ki 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
Ver. 16. Hear the word of the Lord.] Divine truths must be spoken, however they be taken.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv17–18 This judgment is denounced against him for his pride,…
This judgment is denounced against him for his pride, which God exceedingly abhors; and for his ingratitude, whereby he took that honour to himself which he should have given entirely to God, and abused God’s gifts and favours to the gratification of his own lusts; of both which see 2Ch 32:25,26; and for his carnal confidence in that league which he had now made with the king of Babylon, by which, it is probable, he thought his mountain to be so strong, that it could not be removed.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Behold - This judgment is denounced against him for…
Behold - This judgment is denounced against him for his pride; for his ingratitude, whereby he took that honour to himself which he should have given entirely to God; and for his carnal confidence in that league which he had now made with the king of Babylon, by which, it is probable, he thought his mountain to be so strong, that it could not be removed.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Verse 17. Behold, the days come] This was fulfilled…
Verse 17. Behold, the days come] This was fulfilled in the days of the latter Jewish kings, when the Babylonians had led the people away into captivity, and stripped the land, the temple, &c., of all their riches. See Da 1:1-3.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv16–18 2Ki 20:16. Isaiah said, Hear the word of the…
2Ki 20:16. Isaiah said, Hear the word of the Lord — Hear what his judgment is of this, and how wide his thoughts are from thy thoughts! Thou wast transported when the messengers of the king of Babylon arrived; to thy eye it appeared the most favourable conjuncture that could have happened to thee; thou madest a parade of all thy riches, and of thy armoury, to induce them to enter into an alliance with thee against the king of Assyria. Thou thoughtest if thou couldest secure their friendship and alliance, thou wouldest be safe; even safer than in putting thy trust in the Lord God of Israel. But hear the word of the Lord; see the foolishness of thy thoughts: This very nation, in whom thou thinkest to find security, is the nation that shall take away all these treasures, and carry away thy sons into captivity.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v18 This prophecy had two fulfillments, each complementary to the…
This prophecy had two fulfillments, each complementary to the other. Manasseh, Hezekiah’s actual son, was “carried to Babylon” 2Ch 33:11, but did not become a eunuch in the palace. Daniel and others, not his actual sons, but of the royal seed Dan 1:3, and therefore Hezekiah’s descendants, are thought by some to have literally fulfilled the latter part of the prophecy, being eunuchs in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Babylon, under the last kings of Juda. It cannot…
Babylon, under the last kings of Juda. It cannot be explained of Sennacherib, chap. xviii. 15.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv17–18 17. Shall be carried unto Babylon — This seems…
17. Shall be carried unto Babylon — This seems to have been the first explicit prophecy of this great woe of Judah, though Micah’s (iv, 10) prediction of the same event must have been nearly contemporary. The prophecy is especially remarkable, since Babylon was at this time an inferior power, little more than a dependency of Assyria, whose leading men had risen in rebellion; and there was far more probability that Judah would be carried into exile either by the king of Assyria or by the king of Egypt, which two at the time seemed to divide the empire of the world between them.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–18 17. nothing shall be left] Though some few Jews…
17. nothing shall be left] Though some few Jews remained behind among the ruins of the desolated city, nothing worth taking as booty was left behind. For a description of the overthrow and the plunder, see below 2Ki_25:9-17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–18 (17) Behold, the days come . . .—Comp. 2Ch_32:25-26;…
(17) Behold, the days come . . .—Comp. 2Ch_32:25-26; 2Ch_32:31. It is there said that Divine wrath fell upon Hezekiah, because his heart was lifted up; and that the Babylonian embassy was an occasion in which God made proof of his inward tendencies. Self-confidence and vanity would be awakened in Hezekiah’s heart as he displayed all his resources to the envoys, and heard their politic, and perhaps hyperbolical, expressions of wonder and delight, and himself, it may be, realised for the first time the full extent of his prosperity. But it was not only the king’s vanity which displeased a prophet who had always consistently denounced foreign alliances as betokening deviation from absolute trust in Jehovah; and a more terrible irony than that which animates the oracle before us can hardly be conceived. Thy friends, he cries, will prove robbers, thine allies will become thy conquerors. That Isaiah should have foreseen that Assyria, then in the heyday of its power, would one day be dethroned from the sovereignty of the world by that very Babylon which, at the time he spoke, was menaced with ruin by the Assyrian arms, can only be accepted as true by those who accept the reality of supernatural prediction. Thenius remarks: “An Isaiah might well perceive i what fate threatened the little kingdom of Judah, in case of a revolution of affairs brought about by the Babylonians.” But the tone of the prophecy is not hypothetical, but entirely positive. Besides, Isaiah evidently did not suppose that Merodach-baladan’s revolt would succeed. (Comp. Isa_14:29, seq., 21:9.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv16–18 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of…
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord. This is a phrase of warning very common in the mouth of the prophets, when they are about to deliver a rebuke or solemn condemnation (1Ki_22:19; 2Ch_18:18; Isa_1:10 Isa_28:14; Jer_7:2 Jer_9:20 Jer_10:1 Jer_19:3, etc.; Eze_15:3-5 Eze_34:9; Amo_3:1, etc.)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v18 they shall
they shall
Fulfilled. Dan 1:3.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v16 So Isaiah said to Hezekiah
So Isaiah said to Hezekiah
Why Isaiah spoke can be stated clearly. AT: "So, because Isaiah knew Hezekiah had been foolish to show the men all his valuable things, Isaiah said to him" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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the word of Yahweh
"the message of Yahweh"
Look, the days are about to come when
"Listen to me, someday there will come a time when"; "Look" is used to draw attention to what Isaiah is about to tell Hezekiah.
the days
"Days" is synecdoche to refer to an undefined span of time. (See: Synecdoche)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17–18 20:17 everything . . . will be carried off…
20:17 everything . . . will be carried off to Babylon: The Lord’s message through Isaiah predicted the taking of the palace . . . treasures in Jerusalem to Babylon, an event that took place in 597–586 BC (24:10-17; 25:1-21).
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