Week 137, Day 2: The Taunting
Today’s Reading: Isaiah 36:1-22
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
Isaiah now shifts back to recording an immediate danger to Judah. Assyria now comes to the doorstep of Jerusalem. And as is the norm, the king of Assyria has sent a messenger to taunt and intimidate the people before his assault. The king, Sennacherib, gives them a chance to give up but in the message he also tries to discourage them from fighting against him. He says that Egypt cannot save them, they can not save themselves and the worst part is that the king says that Jehovah cannot save them from his hand. What Sennacherib missed was that there was indeed a true God in this land. Yes he had defeated the other lands and their so called gods. But a long time before Assyria showed up on the seen, God had demonstrated to all the nations that He was the true God by the mighty deliverances that He gave to Israel. Unfortunately Israel had disobeyed God so often that now God was allowing them to be punished. Because of his arrogant pronouncement, the king of Assyria incites the anger of Jehovah against himself and his army.
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