Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 37

Isaiah 37:1 ^! Hezekiah asketh counsel of Isaiah who promiseth him the victorie

Isaiah 37:1 ^a In signe of grief and repentance.

Isaiah 37:2 ^b To haue comfort of him by the worde of God, that his faith might be confirmed and so his prayer by more earnest: teaching here by that in all dangers these two are the onelie remedies, to seke vnto God and his ministers.

Isaiah 37:3 ^c We are in as great sorowe as a woman which trauaileth of childe, and can not be deliuered.

Isaiah 37:4 )d) That is, wil declare by effect that he hathe heard it: for when God dissereth to punish, it semeth to the flesh, that he knoweth not the sinne, or heareth not the cause.

Isaiah 37:4 ^e Declaring, that the ministers office doeth not onely stand in comforting by the worde, but also in praying for the people.

Isaiah 37:7 ^f Of the Egyptians and Ethiopians, that shal come and fight against him.

Isaiah 37:8 ^g Which was a citie toward Egypt, thinking thereby to haue staied the force of his enemies.

Isaiah 37:10 ^h Thus God wolde haue him to vtter a moste horrible blasphemie before his destruction: as to call the autor of all trueth, a deceiuer: some gather hereby, that Shebnah had disclosed vnto Sancherib the answer that Isaiah sent to the King.

Isaiah 37:10 ^! The blasphemie of Sanerherib.

Isaiah 37:12 ⁱ Which was a citie of the Medes.

Isaiah 37:12 ^k Called also Charre a citie in Mesopotamia, whence Abraham came after his fathers death.

Isaiah 37:16 ^! Hezekiah prayer.

Isaiah 37:16 ^l He groundeth his praier on Gods promes, who promised to heare them from betwene the Cherubims.

Isaiah 37:18 ^m Meaning, of the ten tribes.

Isaiah 37:20 ⁿ He declareth for what cause he praied, that they might be deliuered: to wit, that God might be glorified thereby through all the worlde.

Isaiah 37:22 ^o Whome God had chosen to him slef, as a chaste virgine, and ouer whome he had care to preferue her from the lusts of the tyrant, as afather wolde haue ouer his daughter.

Isaiah 37:23 ^p Declaring hereby that they that are enemies to Gods Church, fight against him whose quarel his Church onely mainteineth.

Isaiah 37:25 ^q He boasteth of his policie, in that that he can finde measures to nourish his armie: and of his power, in that that his armie is so great, that it is able to drye vp whole riuers, and to destroy the water, which the Jewes had closed in.

Isaiah 37:26 ^r Signifying that God made not his Church to destroy it, but to preserue it, & therefore he saieth that he formed it of olde, euen in his eternal counsel, which can not be changed.

Isaiah 37:27 ^/ Ebr. are short in hand.

Isaiah 37:27 ^s He sheweth that the state and power of moste florishing cities endureth but a moment in respect of the Church, which shal remaine for euer, because God is the mainteiner therof.

Isaiah 37:28 ^t Meaning, his counsels & enterprises.

Isaiah 37:29 ^u Because Saneherib shewed him self, as a deuouring fish & furious beast, he vseth these similitudes to teache how he wil take him and guide him.

Isaiah 37:29 ^x Thou shalt loose thy labour.

Isaiah 37:30 ^y God giueth signes after two fortes: some go before the thing, as the signes that Moses wroght in Egypt, which were for the confirmacion of their faith: and some go after the thing, as the sacrifice, whcih they were commanded to make thre daies after their departure: & these later are to kepe the benefites of God in our remembrance of the which sorte this here is.

Isaiah 37:30 ^z He promiseth that for two yeres the grounde of it self shulde fede them.

Isaiah 37:31 ^a They whome God had deliuered out of the hands of the Assyrians, shal prosper: and this properly belongeth to the Church.

Isaiah 37:35 ^b For my promes sake made to Dauid.

Isaiah 37:36 ^! The armie of Saneherib is slayne of the Angel.

Isaiah 37:37 ^c Which was the chiefest citie of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 37:38 ^d Who was also called Sardanapalus in whome daies ten yeres after Saneheribs death, the Chaldeans ouercame the Assyrians by Merodach their King.

Isaiah 37:38 ^! And he him self of his owne sonnes.

Isaiah 37:38 ^/ Or, Armenia.