Isaiah 36-39

Notes

The Challenge of Trusting God

Isaiah 1–39 VI. Hezekiah’s Challenge to Trust God (36:1–39:8)

These four chapters contain a theological account of Hezekiah’s reign while he was dealing with problems related to Sennacherib’s invasion of Judah in 705–701 BC.

Isaiah 1–39 VI. Hezekiah’s Challenge to Trust God (36:1–39:8)

1. Overcoming Sennacherib’s Threats against Hezekiah (36:1–37:38)

(1) Challenging Hezekiah’s Trust for Deliverance (36:1–22)

The First Challenge: On Whom Can You Depend? (36:1–10)

The Second Challenge: Who Can Deliver You? (36:11–21)

(2) Cutting Off the Blaspheming Assyrian King (36:22–37:7)

(3) Sennacherib’s Final Warning to Hezekiah (37:8–13)

(4) God’s Promise to Rescue Hezekiah (37:14–35)

Requesting God’s deliverance (37:14–20)

Promise to Defeat Proud Sennacherib (37:21–29)

God’s Sign of Survival and Promise of Protection (37:30–35)

(5) Assyrians Defeated (37:36–38)

2. Hezekiah Delivered from Death (38:1–22)

(1) Hezekiah’s Prayer for Healing (38:1–8)

(2) Hezekiah’s Thanksgiving for Healing (38:9–20)

(3) Concluding Comments (38:21–22)

3. Trusting Babylon Rather Than God (39:1–8)