Then came forth to him - Isaiah has here omitted what is recorded in 2 Kings 18:18, namely, that Rabshakeh and his companions ‘c…

Eliakim. —It is significant that Eliakim now fills the office which, a short time before, had been filled by Shebna, while the lat…

And Eliakim went to him. Eliakim was previously mentioned. It was he to whom the Lord promised that he would give him the chief power in t…

Then came forth unto him Being sent by Hezekiah; for otherwise Rabshakeh had the impudence to call to him, in order to pa…

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   And it came to pa in the fourteenth year. Here the author recounts, as a historical account, the destruction of the A y…