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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
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God's Sovereignty in History
Commentators unanimously emphasize that the nations Sennacherib conquered were weak because God sovereignly made them so. Their 'small power' (literally 'short of hand') was not a coincidence but a direct result of God's will. This passage is God's reminder to the arrogant king that his victories were permitted and orchestrated by a higher power, not achieved by his own might alone.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore – Not because you have so great power, but because I have rendered them incapable of resisting you.
Were of small pow…
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore. —Better, and.
They were as the grass of the field. —One symbol of weakness follows afte…
16th Century
Protestant
For their inhabitants were maimed. Here the Prophet expresses more fully what he previously touched upon briefly: that we should not judge…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power Or, "short of hand" F21; it was not in the power of their…
13th Century
Catholic
And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah had heard it. In this part, the author shows how Hezekiah fought against the blasphemies…
