Isaiah 36:1

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Key Reflection

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, launched a significant military campaign against Judah, capturing numerous fortified cities in the process (Isaiah 36:1). This event highlights the severe military pressure faced by Judah during this period and foreshadows the dramatic narrative found later in Isaiah’s account, where Hezekiah faces Sennacherib's threat with divine intervention.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah -Of his reign, 709 b.c. That Sennacherib -Sennacherib was son and successor of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and began to reign A.M. 3290, or 714 b.c., and reigned, according to Calmet, but four years, according to Prideaux eight years, and according to Gesenius eighteen years. The immediate occasion of this war against Judah was the fact that Hezekiah had shaken off the yoke of Assyria, by which his father Ahaz and the nation had suffered so much under Tiglath-pileser, or Shalmaneser2 Kings 18:7. To reduce Judea again to subjection, as well as to carry his conquests into Egypt, appears to have been the design of this celebrated expedition.

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