2 Các Vua 19
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:
StudiumHình ảnh người đàn bà sinh đẻ — Ê-xê-chia ví Giu-đa như một người đàn bà đến kỳ sinh đẻ mà không có sức để sinh. Cuộc khủng hoảng đã đạt đến thời điểm quyết định, nhưng dân sự lại bất lực. Đây là sự thú nhận rằng chỉ có Đức Chúa Trời mới có thể làm cho việc sinh nở được hoàn thành.“This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.
Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”
When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,
Isaiah 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.”’”
When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.
The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:
“Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?
Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods?
Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
StudiumĐấng ngự giữa các chê-ru-bin — Ê-xê-chia gọi Đức Chúa Trời là Đấng ngự giữa các chê-ru-bin, là những hình tượng bằng vàng trên hòm giao ước trong đền thờ. Tước hiệu này nhắc lại sự hiện diện thánh khiết của Đức Chúa Trời với Y-sơ-ra-ên.(EXO 25:22)Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.
Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!
It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.
They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”
Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.
This is what the Lord says about him: “The virgin daughter Zion despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.
Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted, and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars, and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.
I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
StudiumA-si-ri làm công cụ cho Đức Chúa Trời — Đức Chúa Trời phán với Xê-nách-ríp rằng quyền năng của A-si-ri là do Ngài làm từ lâu. A-si-ri là một công cụ được định sẵn, không phải là một lực lượng độc lập. Điều này vang vọng Ê-sai 10:5, nơi A-si-ri được gọi là roi giận của Đức Chúa Trời.(ISA 10:5)Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.
Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
I know where you live, and everything you do.
StudiumCái vòng và khớp miệng — Đức Chúa Trời thề sẽ quay vua A-si-ri trở lại giống như một con thú đang bị dẫn đi. Thay vì Xê-nách-ríp kiểm soát con đường của mình, Chúa sẽ làm nhục và chuyển hướng hắn. Đây là câu trả lời trực tiếp cho sự kiêu ngạo của A-si-ri.Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears; I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”
This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.
Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.
For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.
So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.
He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.
StudiumVì cớ Đa-vít — Sự giải cứu Giê-ru-sa-lem của Đức Chúa Trời được đặt nền tảng trên vinh hiển của chính Ngài và lời hứa giao ước của Ngài với Đa-vít. Điều này nhắc lại lời hứa về một ngai vàng trường tồn hướng về Đấng Mê-si-a sẽ đến.(2SA 7:16)I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”
StudiumThiên sứ của Đức Giê-hô-va — Trong một đêm, một thiên sứ đánh hạ 185.000 lính A-si-ri. Sự giải cứu hoàn toàn là do Đức Chúa Trời làm, làm ứng nghiệm lời hứa của Ngài và khớp với lời thuật song song trong Ê-sai 37:36.(ISA 37:36)That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.
One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
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