Isaiah 36:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּן־יַסִּ֨ית אֶתְכֶ֤ם חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְהוָ֖ה יַצִּילֵ֑נוּ הַהִצִּ֜ילוּ אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־אַרְצ֔וֹ מִיַּ֖ד מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר

Transliteration

Lest pen-yassîṯ ʾeṯḵem ḥizqîyāhû saying, lēʾmōr YHWH yaṣṣîlēnû. Have hahiṣṣîlû ʾĕlōhê hag-gôyim each ʾîš ʾeṯ-ʾarṣô from the hand of miyyaḏ melek ʾaššûr?

Grammar Details

• *pen*: conjunction - lest/that not
• *yassîṯ*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he incites/misleads
• *ʾeṯḵem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
• *ḥizqîyāhû*: proper noun - Hezekiah
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
• *YHWH*: divine name - YHWH
• *yaṣṣîlēnû*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - will deliver us
• *hahiṣṣîlû*: interrogative prefix + hiphil perfect 3rd common plural - have they delivered
• *ʾĕlōhê*: construct plural of אֱלֹהִים - gods of
• *hag-gôyim*: definite article + noun masculine plural - the nations
• *ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - each/man
• *ʾeṯ-ʾarṣô*: direct object marker + noun feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his land
• *miyyaḏ*: preposition + construct noun - from hand of
• *melek ʾaššûr*: construct noun + proper noun - king of Assyria

Word Meanings

• *yassîṯ*: incites/entices/misleads
• *yaṣṣîlēnû*: will deliver us/rescue us/save us
• *hiṣṣîlû*: delivered/rescued/saved
• *ʾĕlōhê*: gods of/deities of
• *gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
• *yaḏ*: hand/power/control

Referenced Verses

• Isa 36:15 : 15 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Isa 37:10 : 10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Isa 37:12-13 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
• Isa 37:17-18 : 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. 18 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
• Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. 5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
• Jer 10:10-12 : 10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. 11 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
• Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
• Hab 2:19-20 : 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
• 2 Kgs 18:33-35 : 33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
• 2 Kgs 19:12-13 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
• 2 Kgs 19:17-18 : 17 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
• 2 Chr 32:13-17 : 13 Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand? 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? 15 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? 16 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah. 17 He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.
• Ps 12:4 : 4 Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"
• Ps 92:5-7 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. 6 A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this: 7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
• Ps 115:2-8 : 2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?" 3 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak; They have eyes, but they don't see; 6 They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell; 7 They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
• Ps 135:5-6 : 5 For I know that Yahweh is great, That our Lord is above all gods. 6 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
• Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths, but they can't speak; They have eyes, but they can't see; 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; Neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
• Isa 36:7 : 7 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
• Isa 36:10 : 10 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.