Isaiah 36 · Verse 19

Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Isaiah 36:19, King James Version

Isaiah 36:19 in other translations

BSBWhere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
WEBWhere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
ASVWhere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
YLTWhere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
DARBYWhere are thegods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are thegods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
BBEWhere are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?
WebsterWhere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

What does Isaiah 36:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
19. Hamath ... Arphad--(See on Is 10:9). Sepharvaim--literally, "the two scribes"; now Sipphara, on the east of Euphrates, above Babylon. It was a just retribution (Pr 1:31; Jr 2:19). Israel worshipped the gods of Sepharvaim, and so colonists of Sepharvaim were planted in the land of Israel (thenceforth called Samaria) by the Assyrian conqueror (2Ki 17:24; compare 2Ki 18:34). Samaria--Shalmaneser began the siege against Hoshea, because of his conspiring with So of Egypt (2Ki 17:4). Sargon finished it; and, in his palace at Khorsabad, he has mentioned the number of Israelites carried captive--27,280 [G. V. Smith].

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 Where are the gods - Many MSS. add the conjunction here also: And, or But, where are the gods, etc. For other matters relative to this chapter, see the notes on 2Kgs 18:13 (note), etc. Of Sepharvaim - The other copy, 2Kgs 18:34, adds, of "Henah and Ivah." Have they delivered - וכי vechi. The copulative is not expressed here by the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and three MSS.; nor is it in any other copy. Ib. Houbigant reads הכי hachi, with the interrogative particle; a probable conjecture, which the ancient Versions above quoted seem to favor.

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Isaiah 36:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַיֵּ֞ה'ai.Yehwhere?H346
אֱלֹהֵ֤י'e.lo.Hei[were] [the] gods ofH430
חֲמָת֙cha.MatHamathH2574
וְאַרְפָּ֔דve.'ar.Padand ArpadH774
אַיֵּ֖ה'ai.Yehwhere?H346
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[were] [the] gods ofH430
סְפַרְוָ֑יִםse.far.Va.yimSepharvaimH5617
וְכִֽי\־ve.khi-and ifH3588
הִצִּ֥ילוּhi.Tzi.luthey have deliveredH5337
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
שֹׁמְר֖וֹןsho.me.RonSamariaH8111
מִיָּדִֽי\׃mi.ya.Difrom hand myH3027

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Cross references for Isaiah 36:19

  • Isaiah 10:9-11

    Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

  • Jeremiah 49:23

    Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

  • 2 Kings 17:24

    And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

  • 2 Kings 17:5-7

    Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

  • 2 Samuel 8:9

    When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

  • Isaiah 37:11-13

    Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

  • Numbers 34:8

    From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

  • 2 Kings 18:10-12

    And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hamath.
Nu 34:8; 2Sa 8:9
Arphad.The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ['Arpâd .]
10:9; Jer 49:23
Arpad.
Sepharvaim.Calmet is of opinion that Sepharvaim was the capital of the Saspires, who, according to Herodotus, were the only people that inhabited between the Colchians and Medes; and probably the Sarapases, whom Strabo places in Armenia. Hiller considers the name as denoting Sephar of the Parvaim, i.e., Mount Sephar adjacent to the regions of Arabia called Parvaim. But it is more probable, as Wells and others suppose, that Sepharvaim is the [Sipphara,] Sipphara, of Ptolemy, the [Sipparenon polis,] the city of the Sippareni, mentioned by Abydenus, and probably the Hipparenum of Pliny, a city of Mesopotamia, situated upon the Euphrates, near where it is divided into two arms, by one of which, it is probable, it was divided into two parts.
2Ki 17:24
and have.
10:10,11; 2Ki 17:5-7; 18:10-12

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Context

  • Isaiah 36:18

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

  • Isaiah 36:19

    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

  • Isaiah 36:20

    Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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Isaiah 36:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Dónde está el dios de Hamath y de Arphad? ¿dónde está el dios de Sepharvaim? ¿libraron á Samaria de mi mano?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Où sont les dieux de Hamath et d’Arpad? Où sont les dieux de Sepharvaïm? Et ont-ils délivré Samarie de ma main?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wo sind die Götter von Hammath und Arpad? wo die Götter von Sepharwaim? Und haben sie Samaria von meiner Hand errettet?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ubi est deus Emath et Arphad? ubi est deus Sepharvaim? numquid liberaverunt Samariam de manu mea?