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2 Kings 19 Bible study: Spread it before the LORD
Sennacherib's words were sent "to defy the living God" (19:16), with the verb David used of Goliath (1 Samuel 17:26). Hezekiah took the letter into the LORD's house and "spread it before the LORD" (19:14) and asked to be saved "that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone" (19:19).
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“Now therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone.”
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“Hezekiah asks the LORD to save Judah so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that the LORD alone is God.”
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A day of trouble
When Hezekiah heard Rabshakeh's words (18:37), "he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s house" (19:1). He sent Eliakim, "who was over the household" (19:2), Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests "to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz" (19:2). It is the first time 2 Kings names Isaiah. The message they carried was Hezekiah's: "Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them" (19:3). It asks Isaiah to pray. Rabshakeh had been sent "to defy the living God" (19:4) (tap defy), and it may be the LORD will hear it: "Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left" (19:4) (tap prayer, remnant). The answer came as the LORD's word: "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me" (19:6) (tap blasphemed). The words had been spoken to Hezekiah's people; the LORD calls them blasphemy against himself.
Where it leads to Jesus
"Father, glorify your name"
2 Kings 19:19leads toJohn 12:27-28
Hezekiah prayed, "Now therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone" (19:19), and the LORD answered, "I have heard you" (19:20). Jesus said, "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time’? But I came to this time for this cause" (John 12:27), and prayed, "Father, glorify your name!" (John 12:28). A voice came from the sky: "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again" (John 12:28). Jesus doesn't cite 2 Kings 19, so setting the two prayers side by side is a reading. What they share: each is prayed in trouble, each asks for God's own name, that all the kingdoms may know the LORD is God alone (19:19), "glorify your name" (John 12:28), and each is answered by God (19:20; John 12:28). Where they differ: Hezekiah asks to be saved out of the king's hand, and the LORD defends the city (19:34); Jesus names the prayer "Father, save me from this time" and doesn't pray it (John 12:27), and in the same scene John says Jesus's words about being lifted up were "signifying by what kind of death he should die" (John 12:33). Some read the two together for what they share; others keep them apart for that difference.
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- Spread it before the LORD
- "They were no gods"
- For my own sake and for David's
- Goliath and the king of Assyria
- Solomon's prayer and Hezekiah's
- Side by side with Isaiah 37
- 12 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
שְׁאֵרִיתshe'eritsay sheh-ay-REET
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "rest, residue, remnant, remainder". Strong's: "a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion". Hezekiah asks Isaiah to pray "for the remnant that is left" (19:4), and the LORD's answer uses the word again: "For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out" (19:31). 2 Kings uses it three times. The third is a warning in Manasseh's days: "I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance" (21:14). Two chapters before this one, when the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, "There was none left but the tribe of Judah only" (17:18); left there is the verb Strong's gives as the root of she'erit (H7604).
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2 Kings 19 Bible study questions
- 1Hezekiah took the letter and "spread it before the LORD" (19:14). What is frightening you right now, and what would it look like to lay it out before God, as it is?
- 2Hezekiah asked to be saved "that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone" (19:19). When you pray about your own trouble, how much of your prayer is about God being known, and what would change if more of it were?
- 3"Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard" (19:6). What words have you heard lately, from people or in your own head, that make you afraid, and what has God said that answers them?
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