Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies: ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh. ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’ ”
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Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:
‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’ ”
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Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to 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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Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until 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 (20)
- 2 Kings 25:13-15 (v6) 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…
- 2 Kings 24:13 (v6) 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…
- Jeremiah 20:5 (v6) Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the…
- Daniel 1:1-7 (v7) In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord gave…
- Daniel 1:2 (v6) The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of…
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- 2 Chronicles 36:10 (vv6–7) At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made…
- 1 Samuel 13:13-14 (v5) Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh…
- 1 Samuel 15:16 (v5) Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”
- 2 Kings 20:17-19 (v6) ‘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…
- 2 Kings 24:12 (v7) 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;…
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 (v6) 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,…
- Jeremiah 27:21-22 (v6) 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…
- Jeremiah 52:17-19 (v6) 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 24:15 (v7) He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried…
- 2 Kings 25:6-7 (v7) Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him. They killed Zedekiah’s…
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 (v7) 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 36:20 (v7) He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom…
- Jeremiah 39:7 (v7) Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
- Ezekiel 17:12-20 (v7) “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6–7 By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how…
By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v5 Hence let us observe, 1. That, if God love…
Hence let us observe, 1. That, if God love us, he will humble us, and will find some way or other to pull down our spirits when they are lifted up above measure. A mortifying message is sent to Hezekiah, that he might be humbled for the pride of his heart, and be convinced of the folly of it; for though God may suffer his people to fall into sin, as he did Hezekiah here, to prove him, that he might know all that was in his heart, yet he will not suffer them to lie still in it. 2. It is just with God to take that from us which we make the matter of our pride, and on which we build a carnal confidence. When David was proud of the numbers of his people God took a course to make them fewer; and when Hezekiah boasts of his treasures, and looks upon them with too great a complacency, he is told that he acts like the foolish traveller who shows his money and gold to one that proves a thief and is thereby tempted to rob him. 3. If we could but see things that will be, we should be ashamed of our thoughts of things that are. If Hezekiah had known that the seed and successors of this king of Babylon would hereafter be the ruin of his family and kingdom, he would not have complimented his ambassadors as he did; and, when the prophet told him that it would be so, we may well imagine how he was vexed at himself for what he had done. We cannot certainly foresee what will be, but are told, in general, All is vanity, and therefore it is vanity for us to take complacency and put confidence in any thing that goes under that character. 4. Those that are fond of an acquaintance or alliance with irreligious men will first or last have enough of it, and will have cause to repent it. Hezekiah thought himself very happy in the friendship of Babylon, though it was the mother of harlots and idolatries; but Babylon, who now courted Jerusalem, in process of time conquered her and carried her captive. Leagues with sinners, and leagues with sin too, will end thus; it is therefore our wisdom to keep at a distance from them. 5. Those that truly repent of their sins will take it well to be reproved for them and will be willing to be told of their faults. Hezekiah reckoned that word of the Lord good which discovered sin to him, and made him sensible that he had done amiss, which before he was not aware of. The language of true penitents is, Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness; and the law is therefore good, because, being spiritual, in it sin appears sin, and exceedingly sinful. 6. True penitents will quietly submit, not only to the reproofs of the word, but to the rebukes of Providence for their sins. When Hezekiah was told of the punishment of his iniquity he said, Good is the word of the Lord, not only the mitigation of the sentence, but the sentence itself; he has nothing to object against the equity of it, but says Amen to the threatening. Those that see the evil of sin, and what it deserves, will justify God in all that is brought upon them for it, and own that he punishes them less than their iniquities deserve. 7. Though we must not be regardless of those that come after us, yet we must reckon ourselves well done by if there be peace and truth in our days, and better than we had reason to expect. If a storm be coming, we must reckon it a favour to get into the harbour before it comes, and be gathered to the grave in peace; yet we can never be secure of this, but must prepare for changes in our own time, that we may stand complete in all the will of God, and bid it welcome whatever it is.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah,.... Now he begins to…
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah,.... Now he begins to let him know that he came not of himself, and that he did not ask these questions to gratify his own curiosity, but that he came from the Lord, and with a word of rebuke from him:
hear the word of the Lord of hosts; a greater King than thou art, who art so elated with thy riches, and grandeur, and fame; or than the king of Babylon, whose ambassadors these are; even the King of kings, and Lord of armies above and below, and who is able to make good every word that is spoken by him, and therefore should be solemnly attended to.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v6 Verse 6. To Babylon] בבלה babelah, so two MSS.,…
Verse 6. To Babylon] בבלה babelah, so two MSS., (one ancient;) rightly, without doubt as the other copy (2Kg 20:17) has it. This prediction was fulfilled about one hundred and fifty years after it was spoken: see Da 1:2; Da 1:3-7. What a proof of Divine omniscience!
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Hear the word of the Lord of hosts -…
Hear the word of the Lord of hosts - Hear what the mighty God that rules in heaven says of this. This is an instance of great fidelity on the part of the prophet. He felt himself sent from God in a solemn manner to rebuke sin in a monarch, and a pious monarch. It is an instance that strikingly resembles the boldness and faithfulness of Nathan when he went to David, and said, ‘Thou art the man’ 2Sa 12:7.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Lord of hosts--who has all thy goods at His…
Lord of hosts--who has all thy goods at His disposal.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv5, 7 5, 6. Hear the word of the Lord —…
5, 6. Hear the word of the Lord — The prophet’s soul was surcharged now with a coming of explicit, definite affliction upon his own people. The king’s imprudence was, for the first time, the occasion of such an utterance. Babylon now rises to his view as the next great engulfing power against the nation.
Behold, the days come — Days of captivity. In one hundred and twenty years they did come.
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All that is in thine house — Which Hezekiah had himself gathered since he was plundered by Sennacherib.
And that which thy fathers have laid up in store — Possibly of this Sennacherib got nothing. Was it not in keeping with the prudence of this people to preserve in most secret store, large wealth never to be touched but in extreme emergencies?
Shall be carried to Babylon — But preserved, as a fact of history, (Ezr_1:7,) to be used again in the restored temple at restored Jerusalem. The divine principle, a remnant shall be saved, extended to all that pertained to the symbols of the spiritual life of that people.
Nothing shall be left — The old national life was to expire utterly, to be resurrected in the spiritual remnant.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv5–7 5. Hear the word of the Lord] Isaiah’s tone…
5. Hear the word of the Lord] Isaiah’s tone is threatening, because he sees in this thing a sin against Jehovah. It was not necessary to specify wherein the offence consisted; king and prophet understood each other perfectly. The reception of an embassy from the sworn enemy of the king of Assyria was in itself an act of rebellion likely to precipitate a conflict which Isaiah strove to avert; and the childish vanity displayed by Hezekiah, his pride in earthly resources, and his readiness to enter into friendly relations with the powers of this world, were tendencies against which Isaiah’s ministry had been a continuous protest. All these tendencies sprang from a single root, the lack of that absolute faith in Jehovah as the all-sufficient guide and protector of the nation which was the fundamental article of Isaiah’s political programme.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v6 (6, 7) Behold, the days come . . .—The…
(6, 7) Behold, the days come . . .—The words, it may be noted, received a two-fold fulfilment, under widely different conditions. Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, at the time when Isaiah spoke unborn, was carried as a prisoner to Babylon by Esar-haddon, king of Assyria (2Ch_33:11). The last lineal heir of the house of David, Jehoiachin, died there after long years of imprisonment (2Ki_25:27). Daniel and his three companions were “of the king’s seed and of the princes,” and were, probably, themselves reduced to that state, placed under the care of “the master of the ennuchs” (Dan_1:3). The actual treasures which Hezekiah showed were probably handed over to Sennacherib (2Ki_18:15-16); but looking to the fact that that king records his capture of Babylon, after defeating Merodach-baladan, and established his son Esar-haddon there (Lenormant, Ancient History, i., p. 400), it is probable enough that the treasures may have been taken thither, and displayed, as if in irony, to the king and the counsellors, who had hoped to profit by them. Sennacherib indeed boasts that he had carried off not only the king’s treasures, and his musicians to Nineveh, but his daughters also (Records of the Past, vii. 63).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Either…
Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Either the prophet had been specially charged with a Divine message to the king before he sought his presence, or the prophetic afflatus now came on him suddenly. The former is, on the whole, more probable.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v5 Hear the word of the Lord of hosts
Isa_39:5-7
Hear the word of the Lord of hosts
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Isaiahs prophecy of the Babylonian captivity
Jarchi directs attention to the exact correspondence of the punishment with the offence.
As the Babylonians had seen all, they should one day take all; as nothing had been withheld from them now, so nothing should be withheld from them hereafter. (J. A. Alexander.)
A costly gratification
Benjamin Franklin, when a lad, was greatly enamoured of a whistle he saw for sale. Swept away by the desire to possess the toy, he gathered all his money and offered it to the vendor, who at once took it and handed over the whistle to the eager boy. For a time the sense of a craving gratified shut out all other consideration. Then, gradually, the lad realised how he had been fooled; and in after-days the wise man, as he observed men and their foolish ways, would remember his own early experience, and say of this man and of that, He has paid too dear for his whistle. (W. C. Bonnet.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv5, 7 Yahweh of hosts
Yahweh of hosts
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the word
"the message"
Look
This word is used here to draw Hezekiah's attention to what is said next. AT: "Listen"
when everything in your palace ... will be carried to Babylon
This can be expressed positively. AT: "when the enemy army will take everything in your palace ... back to Babylon" (See: Active or Passive)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v6 39:6-7 carried off to Babylon: This prophecy was given…
39:6-7 carried off to Babylon: This prophecy was given before the prophecy of the rescue of Jerusalem (37:35). Although this pronouncement of judgment and exile comes as a surprise ending to the story of Hezekiah, the exile of both Israel and Judah had been in the background from the beginning (10:3-4, 20-23). The Lord had promised that he would spare Judah and Jerusalem when the Assyrians attacked in 701 BC, but he had clearly revealed to Isaiah that worse things would come if they did not change their ways. God had demonstrated the truth of his sovereignty and trustworthiness in his defeat of the Assyrians, but that did not mean the people had changed. The only way the promises of 2:1-5 and 4:2-6 were going to be realized was through the fires of judgment (4:4). Until the burning coal of exile was applied to the nation’s unclean lips (6:5-7), their mission to the nations would fail.
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