Ecclesiasticus 37:14

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Et tulit Ezechias libros de manu nuntiorum, et legit eos, et ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eos Ezechias coram Domino:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et tulit Ezechias libros de manu nuntiorum, et legit eos, et ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eos Ezechias coram Domino :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et tulit Ezechias epistulam de manu nuntiorum et legit eam. Et ascendit in domum Domini et expandit eam Ezechias coram Domino.

Bible Verse Review
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received: 2 Kings 19:14

and Hezekiah went: Isaiah 37:1, 1 Kings 8:28-30, 1 Kings 8:38, 1 Kings 9:3, 2 Chronicles 6:20-42, Psalms 27:5, Psalms 62:1-3, Psalms 74:10, Psalms 76:1-3, Psalms 123:1-4, Psalms 143:6, Joel 2:17-20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:6 - David 2 Samuel 7:18 - sat 2 Chronicles 32:17 - He wrote 2 Chronicles 32:20 - Hezekiah Psalms 34:15 - and Psalms 120:1 - my distress Isaiah 37:2 - General Jeremiah 20:12 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it,.... Or books k, in which the above things were written; and everyone of these he read, as Kimchi interprets it; though the Targum is,

"he took the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read one of them;''

that is, as Kimchi's father explains it, in which was the blasphemy against God; this he read over carefully to himself, observed the contents of it, and then did with it as follows:

and Hezekiah went up unto the house of God; the temple, the outward court of it, further than that he could not go:

and spread it before the Lord; not to read it, as he had done, or to acquaint him with the contents of it, which he fully knew; but, as it chiefly regarded him, and affected his honour and glory, he laid it before him, that he might take notice of it, and vindicate himself, and avenge his own cause; he brought it as a proof of what he had to say to him in prayer, and to support him in his allegations, and as a means to quicken himself in the discharge of that duty.

k את ספרים "libros", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Hezekiah received the letter - Hebrew, ‘Letters’ (plural). It is not mentioned in the account of the embassy Isaiah 37:9, that a letter was sent, but it is not probable that all embassage would be sent to a monarch without a written document.

Went up into the house of the Lord - The temple Isaiah 37:1.

And spread it before the Lord - Perhaps unrolled the document there, and spread it out; or perhaps it means simply that he spread out the contents of the letter, that is, made mention of it in his prayer. Hezekiah had no other resource. He was a man of God; and in his trouble he looked to God for aid. He, therefore, before he formed any plan, went up to the temple, and laid his case before God. What an example for all monarchs and rulers! And what an example for all the people of God, in times of perplexity!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:14. And read it - "And read them"] ויקראם vayikraem. So MS. Bodl. in this place; and so the other copy; instead of ויקראהו vaiyikraehu, "and read IT."

And spread it - "And spread them"] ויפרשהו vaiyiphresehu. הו hu is upon a rasure in a MS., which probably was at first ם mem. The same mistake as in the foregoing note.