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Kinga 19 – Hezekiah and Isaiah’s Prophecy
Hezekiah
came to the throne at a troubled, disturbed, and uncertain time in the land. The
northern Kingdom had been taken into captivity. The Syrian Army had come to the
gates of Jerusalem. Hezekiah is just learning to turn to the Lord and trust him.
Tearing his clothes and wearing sackcloth indicate Hezekiah's deep distress and
heavy afflictions. He goes into the House of the Lord.
No
nation ever needed God as this nation needs God right now. Thank God Hezekiah
had enough sense to call upon God in his hour of need. He sent a delegation to
God's prophet, Isaiah. He says, “don't worry about this man. He is not going to
come into your city.
The
Lord can handle enemies much better than we, as He did in this case. Rab-shakeh
returned to his master and found him carrying on a war with Libnah. A
threatening move to the king of Ethiopia kept him from returning to attack
Jerusalem.
We
need to spread our disturbing letters before the Lord just as Hezekiah did. He is
a specialist at this sort of thing. God says, “I was listening when you were
praying to me.”
God
calls Assyria the “rod of mine anger” and the “staff.. mine indignation.” The
Assyrian victims were unable to make an effectual resistance because it was God
who had put fear in their hearts.
God
says through Isaiah that they will not besiege the city in the third year of
Jerusalem and that they will not even shoot an arrow into the sky. When they
arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. They found
about 185,000 dead bodies outside the city walls.
Sennacherib
was slain by his sons. it is interesting that the prophecy concerning Assyria
was literally fulfilled in that day
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.
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