Isaiah  Habakkuk

Isaiah chapter 36 and the book of Habakkuk.

¹It came to pass in the 14th year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. ²The king of Assyria sent the field commander from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great army. He stood by the ascent of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the house's field. ³There went out to him Eliakim son of Hilkiah who was steward of the house and Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph the recorder. Isaiah 36:1-3^4.1The field commander said to them, Now say to Hezekiah, Isaiah 36:4^4.2The great king, the king of Assyria says, What source of confidence is this in which you trust ⁵saying, I am an eloquent speaker and have counsel and strength for war, now on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me? ⁶You trust in the staff of this broken reed, in the Mizraim on which when a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is pharaoh king of Mizraim to all who trust in him. ⁷But if you say to me, We trust in the Master our God, what has Hezekiah gained in removing the high places and the altars and in saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, You will bow before 1 altar? Isaiah 36:4.2-7⁸Now make an alliance with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you 2,000 horses, if you have riders to set on them. ⁹How then can you turn away the face of 1 of the least of the servants of my master and put your trust in the Mizraim to give you chariots and horsemen? ¹⁰Am I now come up without the Master against this land to destroy it? The Master said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. Isaiah 36:8-10¹¹Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for that we hear and do not speak to us in Judean in the presence of the people who are standing on the wall. Isaiah 36:11¹²The field commander said to them, My master has not sent me to you and to your master to say these words, but to the men who sit on the wall that they may not eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you. Isaiah 36:12¹³The field commander stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. ¹⁴The king says, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you. ¹⁵Do not let Hezekiah cause you to trust in the Master saying, The Master will surely deliver us and this city will not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria. Isaiah 36:13-15¹⁶Do not listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, Make a present and come out to me and each eat of his vines and each eat of his fig tree and each drink the waters of his own cistern ¹⁷until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and oil, a land of olive orchards and vineyards. Isaiah 36:16-17¹⁸Do not let Hezekiah deceive you saying, The Master will deliver us. Has any of the Gods of the peoples delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? ¹⁹Where are the Gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the Gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hands? ²⁰Who is he among all the Gods of these lands that has delivered his land out of my hand that the Master should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand. Isaiah 36:18-20²¹They held their peace and did not answer him a word, for the king had commanded saying, Do not answer him. Isaiah 36:21²²Eliakim son of Hilkiah who was steward of the house and Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the field commander. Isaiah 36:22

(Isaiah 36 BRB)

Surrounded

¹The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. Habakkuk 1:1^2.1Master, how long will I cry ^2.2and you will not hear? ^2.3I cry to you because of the plunderers, ^2.4and you will not deliver. I Isaiah 21:2 ^3.1Why do you show me iniquity ^3.2and deceit? ^3.3Destruction and violence are before me, ^3.4and the judge accepts a bribe. ^4.1Therefore, the law is slacked ^4.2and justice never goes forth, ^4.3for the wicked surely does evil to the righteous, ^4.4thus justice goes forth perverted. E Deuteronomy 16:19-20 Habakkuk 1:2-4

(Habakkuk 1:1-4 BRB)

?

^5.1Look among the peoples and see, ^5.2and wonder marvellously, ^5.3for I will do a work in your days ^5.4that you would not believe ^5.5if a man should declare it to you, Q Acts 13:41 ^6.1for I raise up the Chaldeans, ^6.2that hasty and bitter people ^6.3who will march through the breadth of the land ^6.4to inherit tents that are not theirs. ^7.1They are mighty and dreadful, ^7.2their judgment and their notable actions proceed them. Habakkuk 1:5-11

(Habakkuk 1:5-7 BRB)

Horses

^8.1Their horses are swifter than leopards ^8.2and more fierce than the evening wolves, ^8.3and their horsemen will swoop down ^8.4and will come from far away. ^8.5They will fly like an eagle that hurries to eat, ^9.1they will all come for plunder. ^9.2Their hordes advance like an east wind, ^9.3and they will gather captives like sand. ^10.1They will scoff at kings, ^10.2and princes they will mock, ^10.3and they will laugh at every stronghold, ^10.4for they will heap up land and capture it.

(Habakkuk 1:8-10 BRB)

God

^11.1Then they will sweep by like the wind and go on, ^11.2and they will become guilty, ^11.3even they who impute their might to their God.

(Habakkuk 1:11 BRB)

On the Wall

^1.1I will stand on my place ^1.2and set myself on the tower ^1.3and I will watch to see what he will say to me ^1.4and what I will answer when I am reproved. I Isaiah 21:6 Habakkuk 2:1

(Habakkuk 2:1 BRB)

Make it Plain

^2.1The Master answered me and said: ^2.2Write the vision and make it plain on tablets ^2.3that he who reads it may understand it clearly, ^3.1for the vision will come to pass at its appointed time, ^3.2and it will be fulfilled at the end, it will not lie. ^3.3Though it linger do not be impatient, ^3.4because it will surely come, it will not delay. Q Hebrews 10:37 Habakkuk 2:2-4

(Habakkuk 2:2-3 BRB)

Wine

^15.1Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink the dregs of fury ^15.2and makes them drunk that he may look on their nakedness. ^16.1You are filled with dishonor instead of glory. ^16.2Also drink yourself and stagger ^16.3for the cup of the right hand of the Master will come round to you, ^16.4and shame will cover your glory. Habakkuk 2:15-17

(Habakkuk 2:15-16 BRB)

Idols

^18.1What profit is a graven image that its maker has fashioned? ^18.2The molten image is a false doctrine. ^18.3For the heart of its maker ^18.4trusts in it to fashion a mute idol. ^19.1Woe to him who says to tree, Awake, ^19.2to the mute stone, Arise. ^19.3They are vain even though they are overlaid with gold, ^19.4there is no breath at all in them. Habakkuk 2:18-19

(Habakkuk 2:18-19 BRB)

Silence

^20.1But the Master is in his holy house, ^20.2let all the land quake before him. Habakkuk 2:20

(Habakkuk 2:20 BRB)

Heard

^16.1I heard it and my body trembled ^16.2confusing the words of my mouth. ^16.3Decay entered into my bones ^16.4and my knees trembled, ^16.5for he searched me out ^16.6and declared to me the day of trouble ^16.7that comes on the people. Habakkuk 3:16-18

(Habakkuk 3:16 BRB)

Ryan Eaton 2008-10-01 2013-07-09