Isaiah 37

Isaiah 37:1

Sackcloth. Emblems of repentance. Sennacherib’s boasting (ver. 13.) was chastised, ver. 36. (Worthington)

Isaiah 37:7

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Spirit. Angel, or a different design, 2 Thessalonians ii. 8. (Calmet)

Isaiah 37:18

Lands. Hebrew, “all the lands and their land.” The parallel text is more correct, “the nations and their land.” (Kennicott)

Isaiah 37:24

Carmel. See 4 Kings xix. (Challoner)

Isaiah 37:25

Shut, &c. Hebrew matsor, (Haydock) “of Egypt,” where Sennacherib had been. (Calmet)

Isaiah 37:29

Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. (Haydock) (Ezechiel xxix. 4., and xxxviii. 4.) (Calmet)

Isaiah 37:30

Thee. He directeth his speech to Ezechias.

Isaiah 37:35

Servant. Hence it plainly appears that God protects the living for the sake of the saints departed. To evade this proof, Protestants (Bible 1603) explain, “for God’s promise sake made to David.” But God never made any such promise to him; otherwise the city would never have been destroyed. (Worthington)

Isaiah 37:36

They. The people of Jerusalem, or rather the soldiers of Ezechias, who saw those who had been slain, near Pelusium. (Calmet)