Isaiah 37:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 37:1 —

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Cross-References

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2 Kings 19:1-37
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. …
Jonah 3:5-6
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. …
2 Kings 22:11
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
Ezra 9:5
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
Job 1:20-21
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, …

Topics

Burial Dead (people)Dress Hair Mourning Rending Sackcloth

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

We may observe here, 1. That the best way to baffle the malicious designs of our enemies against us is to be driven by them to God and to our duty and so to fetch meat out of the eater. Rabshakeh intended to frighten Hezekiah from the Lord, but it proves that he frightens him to the Lord. The wind, instead of forcing the traveller’s coat from him, makes him wrap it the closer about him. The more R…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Is 37:1-38. Continuation of the Narrative in the Thirty-sixth Chapter. 1. sackcloth--(See on Is 20:2). house of the Lord--the sure resort of God’s people in distress (Psa 73:16, 17; 77:13).