English Standard Version
Isaiah 36:19
19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Isaiah 36:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
- New International Version (NIV)Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- New Living Translation (NLT)What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
Context of Isaiah 36:19
17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" 21But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."
Read all of Isaiah 36Isaiah 36:19 word by word
אַיֵּ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י חֲמָת֙ וְאַרְפָּ֔ד אַיֵּ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י סְפַרְוָ֑יִם וְכִֽי־הִצִּ֥ילוּ אֶת־שֹׁמְר֖וֹן מִיָּדִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 36:19
- Numbers 34:8From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
- 2 Samuel 8:9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,
- Isaiah 10:9Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
- 2 Kings 17:24And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
- Isaiah 10:10As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- 2 Kings 17:5Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
- 2 Kings 18:10and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
Commentaries on Isaiah 36:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Where are the gods - Many MSS. add the conjunction here also: And, or But, where are the gods, etc. For other matters relative to this chapter, see the notes on 2 Kings 18:13; (note), etc. Of Sepharvaim - The other copy, 2 Kings 18:34, adds, of "Henah and Ivah." Have they delivered - וכי vechi . The copulative is not expressed here by the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and three MSS.; nor is it in any other copy. Ib. Houbigant reads הכי hachi, with the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Where are the gods of Hamath - In regard to these places, see the notes at Isaiah 10:9-11. Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? - Sepharvaim was probably in Mesopotamia. Ptolemy mentions a city there of the name of Sipphara, as the most southern city of Mesopotamia, which is probably the same. It is evident that it was in the vicinity of Hamath and Arphad, and these are known to have been in Mesopotamia. When Shalmaneser carried Israel away captive from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19The people of Hamath and Arpad were moved to Samaria, where they worshipped the gods of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:24). This argument made sense to an Assyrian. If the Assyrian gods defeated the gods of other nations and the God of the Israelites in Samaria, would they not also defeat the God of Judah?Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Hamath ... Arphad--(See on Is 10:9). Sepharvaim--literally, "the two scribes"; now Sipphara, on the east of Euphrates, above Babylon. It was a just retribution (Pr 1:31; Jr 2:19). Israel worshipped the gods of Sepharvaim, and so colonists of Sepharvaim were planted in the land of Israel (thenceforth called Samaria) by the Assyrian conqueror (2Ki 17:24; compare 2Ki 18:34). Samaria--Shalmaneser began the siege against Hoshea, because of his conspiring…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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