Isaiah 37:7

Isaiah 37:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
• New International Version (NIV)Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’ ”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

Context of Isaiah 37:7

5When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah, 6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’” 8When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. 9The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

Isaiah 37:7 word by word

הִנְנִ֨י נוֹתֵ֥ן בּוֹ֙ ר֔וּחַ וְשָׁמַ֥ע שְׁמוּעָ֖ה וְשָׁ֣ב אֶל־אַרְצ֑וֹ וְהִפַּלְתִּ֥יו בַּחֶ֖רֶב בְּאַרְצֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Behold, I will sendנָתַןnâthan · to give: putH5414
• a blastרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• upon him, and he shall hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• a rumourשְׁמוּעָהshemû‛âh · tidingsH8052
• and returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• to his own landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• and I will cause him to fallנָפַלnâphal · to fall: killH5307
• by the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719

Cross-references for Isaiah 37:7

• Isaiah 10:16For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
• Isaiah 17:13Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
• Isaiah 29:5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
• Isaiah 30:28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.
• Isaiah 31:8Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.
• Isaiah 33:10“Now I will rise up,” says the Lord. “Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.
• 2 Kings 7:6The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
• Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
• Job 15:21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
• Psalms 58:9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
• Isaiah 37:36The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
• 2 Chronicles 32:21The Lord sent a messenger and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib returned home humiliated. When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

Commentaries on Isaiah 37:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I will send a blast "I will infuse a spirit into him" - "רוח בו נותין nothen bo roach never signifies any thing but putting a spirit into a person: this was , the spirit of deceit." - Secker. "I will send a blast" - I do not think that Archbishop Secker has hit the true meaning of these words. I believe רוח ruach means here a pestilential wind, such as the Arabs call simoom, that instantly suffocates both man and beast; and is what is termed "the angel of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Behold, I will send a blast upon him - Margin, Put a spirit into him.‘ The word rendered blast‘ (רוח rûach ) is commonly rendered spirit.‘ It may denote breath, air, soul, or spirit. There is no reason to think that the word is used here in the sense of blast of wind, as our translators seem to have supposed. The sense is probably, I will infuse into him a spirit of fear, by which be shall be alarmed by the rumour which he shall hear, and return to his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7God answered that he would deal with the Assyrians and rescue the remnant of his people from their distress (see Isaiah 63:9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. blast--rather, "I will put a spirit (Is 28:6; 1Ki 22:23) into him," that is, so influence his judgment that when he hears the report (Is 37:9, concerning Tirhakah), he shall return [Gesenius]; the "report" also of the destruction of his army at Jerusalem, reaching Sennacherib, while he was in the southwest of Palestine on the borders of Egypt, led him to retreat. by the sword--(Is 37:38).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 37:7

• Blasting
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• Hezekiah
• Rabmag
• Bible, the
• Blast
• Chronicles, Books of
• Hezekiah (2)
• Holy Spirit
• Isaiah
• Sennacherib

Commentaries on Isaiah 37

• 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
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings