God responds to this prayer and he does so immediately. We read in 2 Kings 20:4 that Isaiah wasn't even out the front door of the palace when God spoke to him and told him to return to Hezekiah. By this word Hezekiah is encouraged and assured. Wouldn't you be? You've just been praying for a few minutes? And here's

It's important to get our chronology of this chapter straight. It looks like this is something that happened after God had destroyed the Assyrians, but that is not quite right. This happened at the same time. While the Assyrians were attacking, we see Hezekiah having his own problems. He's deadly sick. You can read about this more in 2 Kings

Ultimately Hezekiah and his people relied upon God, for He was, and He remains, and ever shall be, reliable. God answers the prayer, and He honors the faith that He had put into Hezekiah and his people. He begins by acknowledging His own people, not casting them off. What an encouragement to those who had heard with dismay the claims

We see in verses 14 through 20 a reliance on prayer. What Sennacherib had to say in his letter was truly horrific blasphemy. Hezekiah goes to the temple again. Again, he is the mediator for his people, acting as a type of Christ in both his royal and priestly offices. He basically says, 'You are the great God. You are

In this chapter we see the people of God relying on Him. We see reliance upon His word in the first 13 verses. For when Hezekiah heard about what the Assyrians said, what did he do? He first went to the temple, but he also sent men to Isaiah to get the word from God. While he is sending these

The people, properly prepared, respond in general godliness. They trust Jehovah even when things looked hopeless in their eyes. And the Rabshakeh wasn't telling them anything that they didn't already know. They couldn't trust in Egypt. They had offended their God. They didn't have the power to take on the Assyrians, to defend against the Assyrians, themselves. Humanly speaking, things

After all these sticks, Rabshakeh holds out a sweet, tasty carrot. 'Give up. Give up and we'll be nice to you. Throw open the gates, come on out, and everything will be fine. We'll leave you alone for a while. And then we will move you to someplace that's even better. Come on. It'll be nice.'He says, 'Even if Jehovah

This is a pivotal time in Judah's history. We read about this as well in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. King Sennacherib of Assyria finally bursts into Judah like an overwhelming flood. He has a great, fearsome, and seemingly invincible host with him. The word translated Rabshakeh is a military official, he's similar to a military chief of staff. He

This highway is the highway of holiness. We are justified, that is, declared to be innocent before God's law, because of what Christ did for us at the cross. We take hold of Christ and we take hold of his obeying the law in our place, by faith and by faith alone. But the Scripture says that we are dead

In these last three verses of chapter 35, we have a picture of a great highway. It's looking ahead to a time when God's people are redeemed. The people of God, redeemed by Him, shall come to their true journey's end. They shall be able to go to their true home, to their Father's house.This is all looking, of course,