ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

• HEZEKIAH SENDS FOR ISAIAH V. 1-4
• ISAIAH SAYS SENNACHERIB WILL BE DESTROYED V. 5-7
• SENNACHERIB SENDS A LETTER TO HEZEKIAH V. 9-13
• HEZEKIAH TAKES THE LETTER TO THE TEMPLE
• AND PRAYS TO THE LORD V. 14-20
• ISAIAH TELLS HEZEKIAH HIS PRAYER IS HEARD
• JERUSALEM SHALL BE DELIVERED
• AND THE ASSYRIANS SHALL BE DESTROYED V. 21-35
• THAT NIGHT GOD KILLS 185,000 ASSYRIANS V. 36
• SENNACHERIB RETURNS TO NINEVEH
• AND IS KILLED BY HIS OWN SONS V. 37-38

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READ ISAIAH 371-2

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH TEAR HIS CLOTHES
• AND COVER HIMSELF IN SACKCLOTH?
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• WHO DID HEZEKIAH SEND TO ISAIAH?
• ELIAKIM? SHEBNA? ELDERS?
• WHY?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH TEAR HIS CLOTHES?
• WHY DID REUBEN TEAR HIS CLOTHES?
• READ GENESIS 3729-31
• 29 Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed
  Joseph was not in the pit and he tore his
  clothes.
• 30 And he returned to his brothers and said, The
  lad is no more and I, where shall I go?
• 31 So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of
  the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
• NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH TEAR HIS CLOTHES?
• WHY DID JACOB TEAR HIS CLOTHES?
• READ GENESIS 3732-35
• 32 Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and
  they brought it to their father and said, "We
  have found this. Do you know whether it is your
  son's tunic or not?
• 33 and he recognized it and said, It is my
  son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him.
  Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.
• 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on
  his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
• 35 And all his sons and all his daughters arose
  to comfort him but he refused to be comforted,
  and he said, For I shall go down into the grave
  to my son in mourning. Thus his father wept for
  him.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THE ISRAELITES GO TO THE TEMPLE?
• WHAT DID SOLOMON ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• READ 1 KINGS 833-34
• 33 When Your people Israel are defeated before an
  enemy because they have sinned against You. And
  when they turn back to You and confess Your name,
  and pray and make supplication to You in this
  temple,
• 34 Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of
  Your people Israel, and bring them back to the
  land which You gave to their fathers. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• WHY DID DAVID GO TO THE SANCTUARY?
• READ PSALMS 7316-17
• 16 When I thought how to understand this, It was
  too painful for me
• 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God Then I
  understood their end. NKJV
• WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT GODS HOUSE?
• READ MATTHEW 2113
• 13 And he said to them, It is written, My house
  shall be called a house of prayer, but you have
  made it a den of thieves. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHAT DID JEHOSHAPHAT WANT KING AHAB TO DO?
• READ 1 KINGS 224-7
• 4 So he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me
  to fight at Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to
  the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people
  as your people, my horses as your horses.
• 5 Also Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel,
  Please inquire for the word of the LORD today.
• 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
  together, about four hundred men, and said to
  them, Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight,
  or shall I refrain? So they said, Go up, for
  the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the
  king.
• 7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not still a
  prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of
  Him? NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it,
  that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
  sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHO DID AHAZIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO?
• READ 2 KINGS 12-6
• 2 Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his
  upper room in Samaria, and was injured so he
  sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of
  Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall
  recover from this injury.
• 3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the
  Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of
  the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it
  because there is no God in Israel that you are
  going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHAT DID ELIJAH SAY TO THE MESSENGERS?
• READ 2 KINGS 12-6
• 4 Now therefore, thus says the LORD You shall
  not come down from the bed to which you have gone
  up, but you shall surely die. So Elijah
  departed.
• 5 And when the messengers returned to him, he
  said to them, Why have you come back?
• 6 So they said to him, A man came up to meet us,
  and said to us, Go, return to the king who sent
  you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD Is it
  because there is no God in Israel that you are
  sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of
  Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the
  bed to which you have gone up, but you shall
  surely die. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• HOW DID JOSIAH RESPOND TO THE READING
• OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW?
• READ 2 KINGS 2211-20
• 11 Now it happened, when Josiah the king heard
  the words of the Book of the Law he tore his
  clothes.
• 12 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest,
  Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of
  Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a
  servant of the king, saying,
• 13 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the
  people and for all Judah, concerning the words of
  this book that has been found for great is the
  wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us,
  because our fathers have not obeyed the words of
  this book, to do according to all that is written
  concerning us.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHO DID JOSIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO? WHY?
• READ 2 KINGS 2211-20
• 14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor,
  Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the
  prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
  Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
  wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second
  Quarter.) And they spoke with her.
• 15 Then she said to them, Thus says the LORD God
  of Israel, Tell the man who sent you to Me,
• 16 Thus says the LORD Behold, I will bring
  calamity on this place and on its inhabitants
  all the words of the book which the king of Judah
  has read
• 17 Because they have forsaken Me and burned
  incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me
  to anger with all the works of their hands.
  Therefore My wrath shall be aroused against this
  place and shall not be quenched.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHO DID JOSIAH SEND MESSENGER TO? WHY?
• READ 2 KINGS 2211-20
• 18 But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to
  inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall
  speak to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel
  Concerning the words which you have heard
• 19 Because your heart was tender, and you humbled
  yourself before the LORD when you heard what I
  spoke against this place and against its
  inhabitants, that they would become a desolation
  and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept
  before Me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.
• 20 Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your
  fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave
  in peace and your eyes shall not see all the
  calamity which I will bring on this place. So
  they brought back word to the king. NKJV (2
  CHRONICLES 348-28)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-2

• 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the
  household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
  the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
  the prophet, the son of Amoz.
• WHY DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO ISAIAH?
• WHO DID HEZEKIAH SEND MESSENGERS TO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1817-20
• 17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the
  Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a
  great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah.
  And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they
  had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct
  from the upper pool, which was on the highway to
  the Fuller's Field.
• 18 And when they had called to the king, Eliakim
  the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
  Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the
  recorder, came out to them.
• 19 The Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to
  Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of
  Assyria What confidence is this in which you
  trust?
• 20 You speak of having plans and power for war
  but they are mere words. In whom do you trust,
  that you rebel against me?

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READ ISAIAH 373-4

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah
  'This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and
  blasphemy for the children have come to birth,
  but there is no strength to bring them forth.
• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'"

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah
  'This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and
  blasphemy for the children have come to birth,
  but there is no strength to bring them forth.
• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM HEZEKIAH?
• TROUBLESOME TIMES?
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMNANT?
• WHAT DID THEY HOPE THE LORD WOULD DO?
• HEAR THE REBUKE OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah
  'This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and
  blasphemy for the children have come to birth,
  but there is no strength to bring them forth.
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM HEZEKIAH?
• TROUBLESOME TIMES?
• WHY IS THERE NO STRENGTH IN THEM?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT EPHRAIM JUDAH?
• READ HOSEA 510-12
• 10 The princes of Judah are like those who
  remove a landmark I will pour out My wrath on
  them like water.
• 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,
  Because he willingly walked by human precept.
• 12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
  And to the house of Judah like rottenness. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah
  'This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and
  blasphemy for the children have come to birth,
  but there is no strength to bring them forth.
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM HEZEKIAH?
• TROUBLESOME TIMES?
• WHY WAS THERE NO STRENGTH IN THEM?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT EPHRAIM JUDAH?
• READ HOSEA 1312-13
• 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up His sin
  is stored up.
• 13 The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall
  come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should
  not stay long where children are born. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEIR PRAYERS?
• READ EXODUS 223-25
• 23 Now it happened in the process of time that
  the king of Egypt died. Then the children of
  Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they
  cried out and their cry came up to God because
  of the bondage.
• 24 So God heard their groaning, and God
  remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac
  and with Jacob.
• 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel,
  and God acknowledged them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEIR PRAYERS?
• READ EXODUS 37-10
• 7 And the LORD said I have surely seen the
  oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and
  have heard their cry because of their
  taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the
  hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from
  that land to a good and large land, to a land
  flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the
  Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and
  the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
• 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children
  of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen
  the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress
  them.
• 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to
  Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the
  children of Israel, out of Egypt. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• DID THE LORD RESPOND TO SAMUELS PRAYER?
• READ 1 SAMUEL 77-8
• 7 Now when the Philistines heard that the
  children of Israel had gathered together at
  Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up
  against Israel. And when the children of Israel
  heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
• 8 So the children of Israel said to Samuel, Do
  not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us,
  that He may save us from the hand of the
  Philistines. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• DID THE LORD RESPOND TO DAVIDS PRAYER?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 1611-14
• 11 And David said to Abishai and all his
  servants, See how my son who came from my own
  body seeks my life. How much more now may this
  Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse for
  so the LORD has ordered him.
• 12 It may be that the LORD will look on my
  affliction, and that the LORD will repay me with
  good for his cursing this day.
• 13 And as David and his men went along the road,
  Shimei went along the hillside opposite him and
  cursed as he went, threw stones at him and kicked
  up dust.
• 14 The king and all the people who were with him
  became weary. So they refreshed themselves there.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEIR PRAYERS?
• READ PSALMS 5019-21
• 19 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue
  frames deceit.
• 20 You sit and speak against your brother You
  slander your own mother's son.
• 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent
  You thought that I was altogether like you, But I
  will rebuke you, And set them in order before
  your eyes. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 371-4

• 4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.'
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH WANT ISAIAH TO DO?
• PRAY FOR THE REMANANT?
• WHO DID SENNACHERIB SPEAK AGAINST?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3217-19
• 17 He also wrote letters to revile the LORD God
  of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, As
  the gods of the nations of other lands have not
  delivered their people from my hand, so the God
  of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my
  hand.
• 18 Then they called out with a loud voice in
  Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the
  wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that
  they might take the city.
• 19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem,
  as against the gods of the people of the earth
  the work of men's hands. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 375-7

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to
  Isaiah.
• 6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to
  your master, 'Thus says the LORD "Do not be
  afraid of the words which you have heard, with
  which the servants of the king of Assyria have
  blasphemed Me.
• 7 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."'"

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 375-7

• ISAIAH ASSURES DELIVERANCE
• 5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to
  Isaiah.
• 6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to
  your master, 'Thus says the LORD "Do not be
  afraid of the words which you have heard, with
  which the servants of the king of Assyria have
  blasphemed Me.
• 7 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."'"
• WHAT WAS ISAIAHS MESSAGE TO HEZEKIEH?
• DO NOT BE AFRAID?
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEND A SPIRIT AGAINST?
• SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO SENNACHERIB?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 375-7

• 6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to
  your master, 'Thus says the LORD "Do not be
  afraid of the words which you have heard, with
  which the servants of the king of Assyria have
  blasphemed Me.
• WHAT WAS ISAIAHS MESSAGE TO HEZEKIEH?
• DO NOT BE AFRAID?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSHUA?
• READ JOSHUA 18-9
• 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from
  your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and
  night, that you may observe to do according to
  all that is written in it. For then you will make
  your way prosperous, and then you will have good
  success.
• 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good
  courage. Do not be afraid Nor be dismayed. For
  the LORD your God is with you wherever you
  go. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 375-7

• 6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to
  your master, 'Thus says the LORD "Do not be
  afraid of the words which you have heard, with
  which the servants of the king of Assyria have
  blasphemed Me.
• WHAT WAS ISAIAHS MESSAGE TO HEZEKIEH?
• DO NOT BE AFRAID?
• HOW DID THIS PERSON REPROACH ON THE LORD?
• READ NUMBERS 1530-31
• 30 But the person who does anything
  presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a
  stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD
  and he shall be cut off from among his people.
• 31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD
  and has broken His commandment, that person shall
  be completely cut off and his guilt shall be upon
  him. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 375-7

• 7 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."'"
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEND A SPIRIT AGAINST?
• SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT HAPPEN TO SAUL? WHY?
• READ 1 SAMUEL 1614-16
• 14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul,
  And a distressing spirit from the LORD troubled
  him.
• 15 And Saul's servants said to him, Surely, a
  distressing spirit from God is troubling you.
• 16 Let our master now command your servants, who
  are before you, to seek out a man who is a
  skillful player on the harp. And it shall be that
  he will play it with his hand when the
  distressing spirit from God is upon you and you
  shall be well. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 375-7

• 7 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."'"
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEND A SPIRIT AGAINST?
• SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT DID REUBEN, GAD MANNASSEH DO?
• WHO DID THE LORD STIR UP AGAINST THEM?
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 525-26
• 25 And they were unfaithful to the God of their
  fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of
  the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed
  before them.
• 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of
  Pul king of Assyria, that is, Tiglath-Pileser
  king of Assyria. He carried the Reubenites, the
  Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into
  captivity. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara,
  and the river of Gozan to this day. NKJV

33
READ ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• (2 KINGS 198-19)
• 8 Then the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
  of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard
  that he had departed from Lachish.
• 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of
  Ethiopia, "He has come out to make war with you."
  So when he heard it, he sent messengers to
  Hezekiah, saying,
• 10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying 'Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

34
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 8 Then the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
  of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard
  that he had departed from Lachish.
• 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of
  Ethiopia, "He has come out to make war with you."
  So when he heard it, he sent messengers to
  Hezekiah, saying,
• 10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying 'Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• WHERE WAS THE KING OF ASSYRIA?
• WHAT HAD SENNACHERIB HEARD?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT LIBNAH? LACHISH?
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE TO HEZEKIAH?

35
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• READ 2 KINGS 198-19
• 8 Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king
  of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard
  that he had departed from Lachish.
• 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of
  Ethiopia, Look, he has come out to make war with
  you. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah,
  saying,
• 10 Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• 11 Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria
  have done to all lands by utterly destroying
  them and shall you be delivered?
• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?
• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD and spread it before
  the LORD.

36
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• READ 2 KINGS 198-19
• 15 Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and
  said O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells
  between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of
  all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made
  heaven and earth.
• 16 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste the nations and their lands,
• 18 And have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us
  from his hand, that, all the kingdoms of the
  earth may know that You are the LORD God You
  alone. NKJV 2 CHRONICLES 329-15

37
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 8 Then the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
  of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard
  that he had departed from Lachish.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT LIBNAH? LACHISH?
• READ JOSHUA 1029-32
• 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all
  Israel with him, to Libnah and they fought
  against Libnah.
• 30 And the LORD also delivered it and its king
  into the hand of Israel he struck it and all the
  people who were in it with the edge of the sword.
  He let none remain in it, but did to its king as
  he had done to the king of Jericho.
• 31 Then Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel
  with him, to Lachish and they encamped against
  it and fought against it.
• 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand
  of Israel, who took it on the second day, and
  struck it and all the people who were in it with
  the edge of the sword, according to all that he
  had done to Libnah. NKJV

38
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 8 Then the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
  of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard
  that he had departed from Lachish.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT LIBNAH? LACHISH?
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 654-57
• 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout
  their settlements in their territory, for they
  were given by lot to the sons of Aaron, of the
  family of the Kohathites
• 55 They gave them Hebron in the land of Judah,
  with its surrounding common-lands.
• 56 But the fields of the city and its villages
  they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
• 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave one of the
  cities of refuge, Hebron also Libnah with its
  common-lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its
  common-lands. NKJV

39
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of
  Ethiopia, "He has come out to make war with you."
  So when he heard it, he sent messengers to
  Hezekiah, saying,
• WHAT HAD SENNACHERIB HEARD?
• WHO WAS THE KING OF ETHIOPIA? TIRHAKAH?
• READ 2 KINGS 199-10
• 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of
  Ethiopia, Look, he has come out to make war with
  you. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah,
  saying,
• 10 Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  NKJV

40
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• 10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying 'Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE TO HEZEKIAH?
• DO NOT LET YOUR GOD DECEIVE YOU?
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE TO HEZEKIAH?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 329-15
• 9 After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his
  servants to Jerusalem (but he and all the forces
  with him laid siege against Lachish), to Hezekiah
  king of Judah, and to all Judah who were in
  Jerusalem, saying,
• 10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria In
  what do you trust, that you remain under siege in
  Jerusalem?
• 11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give
  yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst,
  saying, The LORD our God will deliver us from
  the hand of the king of Assyria?
• 12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high
  places and His altars, and commanded Judah and
  Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one
  altar and burn incense on it?

41
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 378-10

• 10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
  Judah, saying 'Do not let your God in whom you
  trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not
  be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE TO HEZEKIAH?
• DO NOT LET YOUR GOD DECEIVE YOU?
• WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE TO HEZEKIAH?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 329-15
• 13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have
  done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the
  gods of the nations of those lands in any way
  able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
• 14 Who was there among all the gods of those
  nations that my fathers utterly destroyed that
  could deliver his people from my hand, that your
  God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
• 15 Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you
  or persuade you like this, and do not believe
  him for no god of any nation or kingdom was able
  to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of
  my fathers. How much less will your God deliver
  you from my hand? NKJV

42
READ ISAIAH 3711-13

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 11 Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria
  have done to all lands by utterly destroying
  them and shall you be delivered?
• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'"

43
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 11 Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria
  have done to all lands by utterly destroying
  them and shall you be delivered?
• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• HAMATH? ARPAD? SEPHARVAIM? HENA? IVAH?
• WHAT DID THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA DO TO THEM?
• WHY WERE THEIR GODS UNABLE TO DELIVER THEM?

44
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• WHERE DID THE LORD PUT ADAM EVE?
• READ GENESIS 28
• 8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden,
  and there He put the man whom He had formed.

45
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• WHERE DID ABRAHAMS FATHER, TERAH, DWELL?
• READ GENESIS 1131-32
• 31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson
  Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law
  Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out
  with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the
  land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelt
  there.
• 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five
  years, and Terah died in Haran. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• WHERE DID ABRAM SARA DWELL?
• READ GENESIS 121-4
• 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram Get out of
  your country,
• From your family And from your father's house, To
  a land that I will show you.
• 2 I will make you a great nation I will bless
  you And make your name great And you shall be a
  blessing.
• 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will
  curse him who curses you And In you all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed.
• 4 So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him
  and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five
  years old when he departed from Haran. NKJV

47
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• WHERE DID ABRAMS FATHER DWELL?
• READ ACTS 72-5
• 2 And Stephen said, Brethren and fathers,
  listen The God of glory appeared to our father
  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
  dwelt in Haran,
• 3 And said to him Get out of your country and
  from your relatives And Come to a land that I
  will show you.
• 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans
  and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his
  father was dead, He moved him to this land in
  which you now dwell.
• 5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even
  enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham
  had no child, He promised to give it to him for a
  possession and to his descendants after him. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• GOZAN? HARAN? REZEPH? EDEN?
• TO WHAT LAND WHERE DID SHALMANESER TAKE ISRAEL?
• READ 2 KINGS 175-6
• 5 Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the
  land and went up to Samaria and besieged it for
  three years.
• 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of
  Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to
  Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the
  Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of
  the Medes. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• TO WHAT LAND WHERE DID SHALMANESER TAKE ISRAEL?
• READ 2 KINGS 189-12
• 9 Now it came to pass in the fourth year of King
  Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea
  the son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king
  of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged
  it.
• 10 And at the end of three years they took it. In
  the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth
  year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
• 11 Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away
  captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by
  the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities
  of the Medes,
• 12 Because they did not obey the voice of the
  LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and
  all that Moses the servant of the LORD had
  commanded and they would neither hear nor do
  them.
• NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• HAMATH? ARPAD? SEPHARVAIM? HENA? IVAH?
• WHAT PEOPLE DID SHALMANESER BRING TO ISRAEL?
• READ 2 KINGS 1724
• 24 Then the king of Assyria brought people from
  Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from
  Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of
  Samaria instead of the children of Israel. They
  took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its
  cities. NKJV

51
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE CITIES?
• HAMATH? ARPAD? SEPHARVAIM? HENA? IVAH?
• WHAT GODS DID THESE PEOPLE WORSHIP?
• READ 2 KINGS 1730-31
• 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the
  men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made
  Ashima,
• 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak and the
  Sepharvites burned their children in fire to
  Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of
  Sepharvaim. NKJV

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'
• WHAT DID THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA DO TO THESE PEOPLE?
• WHY WERE THEIR GODS UNABLE TO DELIVER THEM?
• READ 2 KINGS 1833-35
• 33 Has any of the gods of the nations at all
  delivered its land from the hand of the king of
  Assyria?
• 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where
  are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah?
  Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
• 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have
  delivered their countries from my hand, that the
  LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand? NKJV

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3711-13

• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah?'
• WHAT DID THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA DO TO THESE PEOPLE?
• WHY WERE THEIR GODS UNABLE TO DELIVER THEM?
• READ 2 KINGS 1912-13
• 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those
  whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran
  and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in
  Telassar?
• 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of
  Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
  Hena, and Ivah? NKJV

54
READ ISAIAH 3714-17

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• (2 KINGS 198-19)
• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before
  the LORD.
• 15 Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying
• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before
  the LORD.
• 15 Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying
• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHY DID HEZEKIEH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• WHY SPREAD THE LETTER BEFORE THE LORD?

56
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before
  the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIEH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• READ 1 KINGS 833-34
• 33 When Your people Israel are defeated before
  an enemy because they have sinned against You,
  and when they turn back to You and confess Your
  name, and pray and make supplication to You in
  this temple,
• 34 Then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of
  Your people Israel, and bring them back to the
  land which You gave to their fathers. NKJV

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before
  the LORD.
• WHY DID HEZEKIEH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• WHY DID JEHOSHPHAT SEEK THE LORD?
• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH DO?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 203-4
• 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek
  the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all
  Judah.
• 4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the
  LORD and from all the cities of Judah came to
  seek the LORD.

58
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
  of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went
  up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before
  the LORD.
• WHY SPREAD THE LETTER BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3217-19
• 17 He also wrote letters to revile the LORD God
  of Israel and to speak against Him, saying, As
  the gods of the nations of other lands have not
  delivered their people from my hand, So the God
  of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my
  hand.
• 18 Then they called out with a loud voice in
  Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the
  wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that
  they might take the city.
• 19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem,
  as against the gods of the people of the earth
  the work of men's hands. NKJV

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 15 Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying
• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHY DID HEZEKIEH GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
• TO PRAY?
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• Lord of hosts? God of Israel? You alone
  are God?
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH ASK THE LORD TO DO?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH?
• WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• READ GENESIS 11
• 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and
  the earth.
• READ ACTS 423-24
• 23 And being let go, they went to their own
  companions and reported all that the chief
  priests and elders had said to them.
• 24 So when they heard that, they raised their
  voice to God with one accord and said Lord, You
  are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea,
  and all that is in them, NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• THE ONE WHO DWELLS BETWEEN THE CHERIBIMS?
• WHERE DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD MEET WITH MOSES?
• READ EXODUS 2521-22
• 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the
  ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony
  that I will give you.
• 22 And there I will meet with you, and I will
  speak with you from above the mercy seat, from
  between the two cherubim which are on the ark of
  the Testimony, about everything which I will give
  you in commandment to the children of Israel.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• THE ONE WHO DWELLS BETWEEN THE CHERIBIMS?
• WHERE DID MOSES HEAR THE LORD SPEAKING TO HIM?
• READ NUMBERS 789
• 89 Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of
  meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of
  One speaking to him from above the mercy seat
  that was on the ark of the Testimony, from
  between the two cherubim thus He spoke to him.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• THE ONE WHO DWELLS BETWEEN THE CHERIBIMS?
• WHERE DID DAVID SAY THE LORD DWELT?
• READ PSALMS 801
• 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead
  Joseph like a flock You who dwell between the
  cherubim, shine forth! NKJV
• READ PSALMS 991-2
• 1 The LORD reigns Let the peoples tremble! He
  dwells between the cherubim Let the earth be
  moved!
• 2 The LORD is great in Zion, And He is high above
  all the peoples. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• GOD OF GODS? LORD OF LORDS?
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1017
• 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord
  of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who
  shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• GOD OF GODS? LORD OF LORDS?
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 1361-3
• 1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
  For His mercy endures forever.
• 2 Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His
  mercy endures forever.
• 3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His
  mercy endures forever. NKJV

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• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• YOU ALONE ARE GOD?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT HIMSELF?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 3239
• 39 Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is
  no God besides Me I kill and I make alive I
  wound and I heal Nor is there any who can
  deliver from My hand. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 16 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who
  dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You
  alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
  made heaven and earth.
• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• YOU ALONE ARE GOD?
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 4610
• 10 Be still, and know that I am God I will be
  exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in
  the earth! NKJV
• READ PSALMS 8610
• 10 For You are great, and do wondrous things You
  alone are God.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• HOW DID HEZEKIAH ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD?
• YOU ALONE ARE GOD?
• WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THE LORD GOD?
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 84-6
• 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things
  offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing
  in the world, and that there is no other God but
  one.
• 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether
  in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and
  many lords),
• 6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of
  whom are all things, and we for Him and one Lord
  Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and
  through whom we live. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• INCLINE YOUR EAR OPEN YOUR EYES?
• HEAR ALL THE WORDS OF SENNACHERIB?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• INCLINE YOUR EAR OPEN YOUR EYES?
• HEAR ALL THE WORDS OF SENNACHERIB?
• READ 2 KINGS 1915-16
• 15 Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and
  said "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells
  between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of
  all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made
  heaven and earth.
• 16 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3714-17

• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• WHAT DID DAVID ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• READ PSALMS 312
• 2 Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily
  Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense to
  save me.
• READ PSALMS 861
• 1 Bow down Your ear, O LORD, hear me For I am
  poor and needy. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 882
• 2 Let my prayer come before You Incline Your ear
  to my cry. NKJV

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• 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear open Your
  eyes, O LORD, and see and hear all the words of
  Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the
  living God.
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• WHAT DID DANIEL ASK THE LORD TO DO?
• READ DANIEL 918-19
• 18 O my God, incline Your ear and hear open
  Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city
  which is called by Your name for we do not
  present our supplications before You because of
  our righteous deeds, but because of Your great
  mercies.
• 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen
  and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God,
  for Your city and Your people are called by Your
  name." NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 3718-20

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• (2 KINGS 198-19)
• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from
  his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
  know that You are the LORD, You alone."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• SENNACHERIB'S THREAT HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER
• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from
  his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
  know that You are the LORD, You alone."
• WHY ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEEDS OF THE ASSYRIANS?
• WHY WERE THEY ABLE TO DESTROYED THEIR GODS?
• WHAT SHOULD ALL NATIONS OF EARTH KNOW?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• WHY ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEEDS OF THE ASSYRIANS?
• WHY WERE THEY ABLE TO DESTROYED THEIR GODS?
• WHAT SHOULD ALL NATIONS OF EARTH KNOW?
• READ 2 KINGS 1917-19
• 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste the nations and their lands,
• 18 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us
  from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
  may know that You are the LORD God, You alone."
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• WHAT DID JOSHUA TELL ISRAEL TO DO? WHY?
• READ JOSHUA 713-15
• 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say,
  'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus
  says the LORD God of Israel "There is an
  accursed thing in your midst, O Israel you
  cannot stand before your enemies until you take
  away the accursed thing from among you.
• 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought
  according to your tribes. And it shall be that
  the tribe which the LORD takes shall come
  according to families and the family which the
  LORD takes shall come by households and the
  household which the LORD takes shall come man by
  man.
• 15 Then it shall be that he who is taken with
  the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he
  and all that he has, because he has transgressed
  the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done
  a disgraceful thing in Israel.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• WHAT DID ABIJAH SAY TO JEROBOAM?
• WHAT DID JEROBOAM DO?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 138-9
• 8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of
  the LORD, which is in the hand of the sons of
  David and you are a great multitude, and with
  you are the gold calves which Jeroboam made for
  you as gods.
• 9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD,
  the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for
  yourselves priests, like the peoples of other
  lands, so that whoever comes to consecrate
  himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a
  priest of things that are not gods?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• HOW DID SENNACHERIB SPEAK AGAINST THE GOD?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3217-19
• 17 He also wrote letters to revile the LORD God
  of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, "As
  the gods of the nations of other lands have not
  delivered their people from my hand, so the God
  of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my
  hand.
• 18 Then they called out with a loud voice in
  Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the
  wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that
  they might take the city.
• 19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem,
  as against the gods of the people of the earth
  the work of men's hands. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 3718-20

• 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
  waste all the nations and their lands,
• 19 and have cast their gods into the fire for
  they were not gods, but the work of men's hands
  wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT IDOLS?
• READ PSALMS 13515-18
• 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
  The work of men's hands.
• 16 They have mouths, but they do not speak Eyes
  they have, but they do not see
• 17 They have ears, but they do not hear Nor is
  there any breath in their mouths.
• 18 Those who make them are like them So is
  everyon