Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Do not be afraid of the words"
Text: Isaiah 37:6
A STRONG REPONSE TO KING HEZEKIAH
The servants of King Hezekiah came with great apprehension to Isaiah the prophet. They were not sure how Isaiah would respond.
“So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 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.
Surely I will send a spirit upon him,
and he shall hear a rumour and return to his own land;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”'”
Isaiah 37:5-7
1. The servants of Hezekiah.
a) They were sent to Isaiah the prophet.
b) They were afraid of the Assyrian threat.
c) They came to ask Isaiah to intercede for the nation.
2. Isaiah’s response.
a) He had received a word from “The LORD”.
b) He relayed what God had said to him.
3. The Message from the LORD.
a) They need not fear the words spoken by the Rabshakeh.
b) The Rabshakeh and the king he represented had blasphemed the LORD’S name.
c) God will respond strongly.
i) God will send him “a spirit”.
ii) Sennacherib will hear a rumour.
iii) He will return swiftly to Assyria.
iv) He will abandon the siege of Jerusalem.
v) He would be slain when he returns to Assyria.
vi) This was God’s response to the blasphemy of the Assyrian Rabshakeh.
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