By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir-trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
Commentaries
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And you have said - Isaiah puts into words the thoughts of Sennacherib’s heart—thoughts of the most extreme self-confidence. (Compare Isaiah…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
The multitude. —This is the reading of the Hebrew margin, of many MSS., Isaiah, and all the versions. The Hebrew text has “with th…
John Gill
JohnGill
(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
All Sennacherib's movements were under Divine cognizance. God Himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, which He undertak…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes