2 Kings 19:15

13 ^aWhere is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’ ”

14 ^aAnd Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

15 Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said: “O Lord God of Israel, the One ^awho dwells between the cherubim, ^bYou are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

16 ^aIncline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; ^bopen Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, ^cwhich he has sent to reproach the living God.

17 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were ^anot gods, but ^bthe work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.

19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I pray, save us from his hand, ^athat all the kingdoms of the earth may ^bknow that You are the Lord God, You alone.”

The Word of the Lord Concerning Sennacherib

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ^a‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, ^bI have heard.’

21 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him:
‘The virgin, ^athe daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
^bHas shaken her head behind your back!

22 ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high?
Against ^athe Holy One of Israel.

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2 Kings 19:15

Which dwellest between the cherubims - The reference is to the shechinah, or miraculous glory, which from time to time appeared above the mercy-seat from between the two cherubims, whose wings overshadowed the ark of the covenant (I Kings 6:23-27; compare Exodus 25:22; Leviticus 16:2, etc.).

Thou art the God, even thou alone - This is the protest of the pure theist against the intense polytheism of Sennacherib' s letter, which assumes that gods are only gods of particular nations, and that Hezekiah' s God is but one out of an indefinite number, no stronger or more formidable than the rest.

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