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Isaiah 37

Isa. 37:36 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thenp the angel
mal'ak (Hebrew #4397)
a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
KJV usage: ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
Pronounce: mal-awk'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
went forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and smote
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
in the camp
machaneh (Hebrew #4264)
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Pronounce: makh-an-eh'
Origin: from 2583
of the Assyrians
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
a hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
and fourscore
shmoniym (Hebrew #8084)
mult. from 8083; eighty, also eightieth
KJV usage: eighty(-ieth), fourscore.
Pronounce: shem-o-neem'
Origin: or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}
and five
chamesh (Hebrew #2568)
a primitive numeral; five
KJV usage: fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).
Pronounce: khaw-maysh'
Origin: masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
: and when they arose early
shakam (Hebrew #7925)
properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from 7926; literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning
KJV usage: (arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.
Pronounce: shaw-kam'
Origin: a primitive root
in the morning
boqer (Hebrew #1242)
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
KJV usage: (+) day, early, morning, morrow.
Pronounce: bo'-ker
Origin: from 1239
, behold, they were all dead
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
corpses
peger (Hebrew #6297)
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
KJV usage: carcase, corpse, dead body.
Pronounce: peh'gher
Origin: from 6296
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Isa. 10:12• 12And it shall come to pass [that], when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:12)
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the angel.
Isa. 10:12,16‑19,33‑34• 12And it shall come to pass [that], when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
 16Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
 17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day;
 18and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
 19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, yea, a child may write them.
 33Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with terror; and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty [shall be] humbled.
 34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (Isa. 10:12,16‑19,33‑34)
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Isa. 30:30‑33• 30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with indignation of anger, and a flame of devouring fire, [with] a crashing and tempest and hailstones.
 31For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be broken in pieces; he will smite with a rod.
 32And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with tabrets and harps; and in battles of shaking will he fight with them.
 33For Topheth [is] prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:30‑33)
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Isa. 31:8• 8And the Assyrian shall fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary. (Isa. 31:8)
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Isa. 33:10‑12• 10Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
 11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath [as] fire shall devour you,
 12and the peoples shall be [as] the burnings of lime; [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. (Isa. 33:10‑12)
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Ex. 12:23• 23{i}And Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.{/i} (Ex. 12:23)
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2 Sam. 24:16• 16{i}And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.{/i} (2 Sam. 24:16)
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2 Kings 19:35• 35It came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. (2 Kings 19:35)
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1 Chron. 21:12,16• 12{i}Choose thee,{/i} either three years' famine, or three months to be destroyed before the foe, {i}while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee{/i}, or three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the pestilence in the land, {i}and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.{/i}
 16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. (1 Chron. 21:12,16)
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2 Chron. 32:21‑22• 21And Jehovah sent an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
 22Thus Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib {i}the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all, and protected them on every side.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:21‑22)
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Psa. 35:5‑6• 5They shall be as chaff before the wind,{HR}And the angel of Jehovah overthrowing [them].
 6Their way shall be darkness and slippery places;{HR}And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them. (Psa. 35:5‑6)
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Acts 12:23• 23And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he gave not the glory to God; and becoming worm-eaten he expired. (Acts 12:23)
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Ex. 12:30• 30{i}And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.{/i} (Ex. 12:30)
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Job 20:5‑7• 5From near [is] the triumphing of the wicked,{HR}And the joy of the ungodly for a moment.
 6Though his height mount to the heavens,{HR}And his head reach the cloud,
 7Like his dung he perisheth forever;{HR}They that saw him shall say, Where [is] he? (Job 20:5‑7)
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Job 24:24• 24High they are a little while, and are not,{HR}And they sink; like all they are shut up,{HR}And are cut off, like the topping ears of corn. (Job 24:24)
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Psa. 46:6‑11• 6Nations raged, kingdoms were moved:{HR}He uttered his voice; the earth melteth.
 7Jehovah of hosts [is] with us;{HR}The God of Jacob [is] a refuge to us. Selah.
 8Come, behold the works of Jehovah,{HR}Who hath set desolations in the earth,
 9Causing wars to cease unto the end of the earth;{HR}He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear;{HR}He burneth the chariots in the fire.
 10Leave off, and know that I [am] God:{HR}I will be exalted among the nations;{HR}I will be exalted in the earth.
 11Jehovah of hosts [is] with us;{HR}The God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah. (Psa. 46:6‑11)
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Psa. 76:5‑7• 5The strong of heart have been spoiled,{HR}They have slumbered their sleep;{HR}And none of the men of might have found their hands.
 6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,{HR}Both chariot and horse [are] cast into a dead sleep.
 7Thou [art] terrible, thou;{HR}And who shall stand in thy presence when once [in] thine anger? (Psa. 76:5‑7)
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1 Thess. 5:2‑3• 2For yourselves know thoroughly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief at night.
 3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:2‑3)
• The chapter closes with a brief record of the drastic smiting of the Assyrian army. No record of this has been found among the dug-up remains of Assyrian libraries and monuments, we understand; and no wonder! These ancient monarchs no more desired to keep their defeats and abasements in the memory of their public than the men of today. (“Isaiah 37” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.