by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:27 “But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.” Wow! Do you ever remember when you were younger someone said to you “I know where you live”, and it was meant to create a sense of fear...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:28 – “because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put a hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came”. So here is my interpretation –...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:30 A remnant of the family of Judah yet again will sink down roots and raise up fruit. It’s good to think about Judah, one of the sons of Jacob (later called Israel) – his mum was Leah, he was a middle child. He was a half-brother to Joseph, whose...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this. “S’eryit” is how “remnant” is pronounced in Hebrew. This word appears 66 times in the Old Testament, and...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:32 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it”. How detailed is God’s response to...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same he, shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. Isaiah is bringing the answer to Hezekiah’s prayer to God, from God to Hezekiah. Here we come to the critical point. Sennacherib, the...