Isaiah 37

Isaiah 37
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 37 is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1][2] The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary describes chapters 36 to 39 as an "historical appendix closing the first division of Isaiah's prophecies ... added to make the parts of these referring to Assyria more intelligible".[3] The text largely replicates 2 Kings 19:1-37

Text

Textual versions

Lachish reliefs, British Museum.

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

Verse 3

Good News Translation:

We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it.[5]

A proverbial expression reflecting powerlessness.[6] Hosea 13:13, similarly, states:

He (Ephraim) is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb".[7]

Defeat of Sennacherib's Army

King James Version:

Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.[8]

Epilogue: Verse 38

King James Version:

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.[9]

According to Assyrian records, Sennacherib was assassinated in 681 BC, twenty years after the 701 BC invasion of Judah.[10]

Armenia: or Ararat.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. ↑ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Isaiah 36, accessed 8 May 2018
  4. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Isaiah 37:3
  6. ↑ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Isaiah 37, accessed 9 May 2018
  7. ↑ Hosea 13:13
  8. ↑ Isaiah 37:36
  9. ↑ Isaiah 37:38
  10. ↑ J. D. Douglas, ed., New Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965) 1160.
  11. ↑ Isaiah 37:38: NKJV

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Christian

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