Teks -- 2 Kings 19:17 (NET)

19:17 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Ki 19:14-19 - Hezekiah received the letter . . . and went up into the house of the Lord

Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith before the Lord, as containing taunts deeply affecting the divine honor, and implored deliverance from this proud defier of God and man. The devout spirit of this prayer, the recognition of the Divine Being in the plenitude of His majesty--so strikingly contrasted with the fancy of the Assyrians as to His merely local power; his acknowledgment of the conquests obtained over other lands; and of the destruction of their wooden idols which, according to the Assyrian practice, were committed to the flames--because their tutelary deities were no gods; and the object for which he supplicated the divine interposition--that all the kingdoms of the earth might know that the Lord was the only God--this was an attitude worthy to be assumed by a pious theocratic king of the chosen people.

TSK: 2Ki 19:17 - Of a truth // the kings

Of a truth : Job 9:2; Isa 5:9; Jer 26:15; Dan 2:47; Mat 14:33; Luk 22:59; Act 4:27; 1Co 14:25

the kings : 2Ki 16:9, 2Ki 17:6, 2Ki 17:24; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 7:17, Isa 7:18, Isa 10:9-11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: 2Ki 19:1-37 - And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it // that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth

And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it,.... The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter:

that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth; rent his clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth, in token of mourning, for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple, to pray unto him. The message he sent to Isaiah, with his answer, and the threatening letter of the king of Assyria, Hezekiah's prayer upon it, and the encouraging answer he had from the Lord, with the account of the destruction of the Assyrian army, and the death of Sennacherib, are the same "verbatim" as in Isa 37:1 throughout; and therefore the reader is referred thither for the exposition of them; only would add what Rauwolff ^t observes, that still to this day (1575) there are two great holes to be seen, wherein they flung the dead bodies (of the Assyrian army), one whereof is close by the road towards Bethlehem, the other towards the right hand against old Bethel.