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:BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. PART II. HISTORIO.A.L SKETCH OF EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (OH.XXXVI.-XXXIX.). SECTION L SBNN.A.OEEBIB'B ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE JUD&A, .A.ND HIS OVEBTHBOW (en. XXXVI., XX.XVIL).
EXPOSITION. breviatione of a more extensive narrative, OHAPTER XXXVI. ench ae that composed for the original "Ilook IF the Book of IBBiah be regarded ae the of the Chronicles" probably was. The r.b- result ofe. gradual accretion (see the General breviation here inserted may have been Introduction), whether that accretion is to be made either by the prophet himself, or by ascribed to the action of the prophet himself a "co-editor." The point is one which is or to that of later editors, we may equally not very important, and which it is quite consider the present chapters (eh. x.u:vi.- impossible to deterruine, unless arbitrarily. xxx.ix.) to have been origine.lly an "Appen- Ver. 1.-It came to pass in the fourteenth d.ix," attached 118 furnishing illnstration to year of King Hezekiah. There is an irre- concilable difference between this note o! the preceding prophecies, and at one time time, in the passage as it stands, and the terminating the book. They will thus stand Assyrian inscriptions. The fourteenth year to the preceding chapters in much the same of Hezekiah we.a a.c. 71-l or 713. Sargon relation as that in which the le.et chapter of was then King of Assyria, and co11tinuecl J eremio.h stands to the rest of that prophet's king till B.C. 705. Sennacherib di,I not ascend the throne till that war, and he d;cl work, differing only in the fact that they not lead e.n expedition into Palestine till are almost entirely the prophet's own com- n.c. 701. Thus the date, as it stands, is position. Isaiah wrote the history of the eleven or twelve yeurs too early. It is now reign of Hezekiah for the general "Book of tho common opinion of critics that the chro- the Chroniclos of the Kings of Judah" (2 nology of the Dooka of Kings, speaking generally, is" I\ later l\tldition to the Hebrew Chron. :nxii. 82). From this "book" the narrative" (Cheyne, 'Isaiah,' vol. i. p. 199, account of the reign which we have in note 1). It is uncertain when tho dl\tes 2 Kings (xviii.-u.) is almost certainly wero added; but it would not be long from to.ken (2 Kings xx. 20), The closo verbal the time when the additie;i was made before resemblance between the prosont chapters "Isaiah" wonld be brought into a~oord with "Kings." Another view is thot the date and those in Kings, and the ditrorencee, belongs to the original writings, but that it which are ohiefly omissions, are beet ao- has suffered corruption," fourteenth" having ccunted for by supposing that both are ab- been substituted for "twenty-sixth," from IBAIAH-n, B 2 THE DOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. [orr. xuvr. 1-22,