John Gill Commentary Isaiah 37:33

"Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it." — Isaiah 37:33 (ASV)

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria ,
&c.] The issue of his expedition, and the fruitfulness of it; how vain his attempts would be, and how successless in this undertaking:

he shall not come into this city ;
shall not enter into it, and take possession of it, though so sure of it; or, "shall not come to it^F23"; for some think he never was any nearer it than Libnah, from where he sent his letters to Hezekiah, (Isaiah 37:8Isaiah 37:9) ,

nor shoot an arrow there ;
neither he nor his archers, so as to annoy or kill anyone person in it:

nor come before it with shields ;
or, "with a shield"; that is, he himself with one; otherwise his army under Rabshakeh was before it with men armed with shields; or the sense is, he shall not prevent it, or seize upon it, with his shielded men:

nor cast a bank against it ;
raise a mount, in order to fix his batteries upon, and play his artillery from, and shoot his arrows in to greater advantage.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F23: (tazh ryeh la aby al) "non veniet ad civitatem hanc", Oecolampadius, Musculus, Gataker; "ad urbem hanc": Vitringa.