Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 19

2 Kings 19:2 (a) To heare some newe prophecie and to haue comforte of him.

2 Kings 19:3 (b) The dangers are so great that we can nether auenge this blasphemie, nor helpe our selues, no more then a woman in her trauel.

2 Kings 19:4 (c) Meaning for Jerusalem which onely remained of all the cities of Judah.

2 Kings 19:6 (!) God promiseth by Isaiah victorie to Hezekiah.

2 Kings 19:7 (d) The Lord can with one blast blowe away all the strength of man and turne it into dust.

2 Kings 19:9 (f) For the Kings of Ethiopia & Egypt joyned together against the King of Assyria because of his oppression of other countreys.

2 Kings 19:9 (e) That is, Saneherib.

2 Kings 19:9 (/) Or, blacke Mores.

2 Kings 19:10 (g) The more nere that the wicked are to their destruction, the more they blaspheme.

2 Kings 19:14 (h) Before the Arke of the couenant.

2 Kings 19:15 (i) He sheweth what is the true refuge & succour in all dangers, to wit, to flee to the Lord by ernest prayer.

2 Kings 19:16 (l) By this title he discerneth God from all idoles and false gods.

2 Kings 19:16 (k) Shew by effect that thou wilt not suffer thy Name to be Blasphemed.

2 Kings 19:19 (m) He sheweth for what end the faithful desire of God to be deliuered: to wit, that he may be glorified by their deliuerance.

2 Kings 19:21 (n) Because as yet, Jerusalem had not bene taken by the enemie, therefore he calleth her virgine.

2 Kings 19:22 (o) God counteth that iniurie done to him, and wil reuenge it which is done to anie of his Saints.

2 Kings 19:23 (p) Meaning Jerusalem, which Isaiah calleth the hight of his borders, to wit, of Judah, {Isa. 37:24}

2 Kings 19:23 (/) Or, pleasant countrey.

2 Kings 19:23 (/) Or, the waters of cities besieged.

2 Kings 19:25 (q) He declareth that for as muche as he is the autor and beginning of his Church, he wil neuer suffer it vtterly to be destroyed, as other cities and kingdomes.

2 Kings 19:26 (r) Thus he describeth the wicked, which for a time florish, and afterwarde fade and decay like flowres.

2 Kings 19:28 (s) I wil bridel thy rage and turne thee to & fro as pleaseth me.

2 Kings 19:29 (t) God did not onely promes him the victorie, but giueth him a signe to confirm his faith.

2 Kings 19:30 (u) The Lord wil multiplie in great nomber that small remnant of Judah that is escaped.

2 Kings 19:31 (x) The loue, that God beareth toward his Church, shal ouercome the counsels and enterprises of men.

2 Kings 19:35 (!) The Angel of the Lord killeth an hundreth and four score and fiue thousand men of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 19:37 (!) Sanecherib is killed of his owne sonnes.

2 Kings 19:37 (y) This was the juste judgement of God for his blasphemie, that he shulde be slaine before that idole, whome he preferred to the liuing God, & by them by whome he oght by nature to haue bene defended.