Bible History - Old Testament

- 104- ** To avoid the multiplication of references, we may state that, as regards the facts of Assyrian history, we have mainly ...

- 105- 200, 150 of their captive inhabitants, men and women; of the taking of immense booty, and the annexation - probably only ...

- 106- concealing the virtual, if not the actual, defeat of Sennacherib. As we infer from a comparison of the Assyrian account w ...

- 107- ** The critics who suppose a mutual dependence of the two narratives are somewhat evenly divided as to the priority of th ...

- 108- As the upper pool lay outside the city walls}and would supply the wants of a besieging army, Hezekiah covered it in, and ...

- 109- Isaiah nor in the Book of Chronicles** do we find any reference to the embassy of Hezekiah nor to the tribute which he se ...

- 110- siege the conference between the two parties took place. But it was probably not long after the arrival of the besieging ...

- 111- CHAPTER 12 - HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. Meaning and Lessons of the Account of the Assyrian Invasion. (2 KINGS ...

- 112- inroad of Assyria and its success, not only the approbation of, but even a mandate from Jehovah. In Isaiah 36:7 it is pu ...

- 113- In reference to the nations mentioned in 2 Kings 18:34,,Arpad, mentioned in the Bible (comp. also Isaiah 10:9; Jeremiah ...

- 114- This, as has been remarked, is instructive as showing the relation between the priesthood and the prophets. ** By way o ...

- 115- ** The mention of the places enumerated in 2 Kings 19:12, confirms the view expressed in a previous note, that the boaste ...

- 116- See Bahr ad loc. In the first (vers. 21-28), the unconquered virgin daughter of Zion addresses to Sennacherib her Divin ...

- 117- guaranteed by this sign, that in the present year, when the ordinary operations of sowing had been interrupted, they woul ...

- 118- Nor was the Divine judgment on Sennacherib long delayed. "In that night"* "the angel of Jehovah" went forth to smite in t ...

- 119- the time of the Exodus and of the destruction of the army of Pharaoh in the waves of the Red Sea (comp. Exodus 14:23-31). ...

- 120- "As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,. ..[his sons] Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword, ...

- 121- CHAPTER 13 - HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH Date of Hezekiah's Sickness - Announcement of his Death -- The Prayer o ...

- 122- In these circumstances it is a question of historical interest, rather than of practical importance,* whether the sicknes ...

- 123- immediately preceded the campaign of Sennacherib. The narrative itself offers no special difficulties. As Hezekiah lay si ...