Isaiah 37:14

Hezekiah takes the threatening letter to the temple and spreads it before the Lord. It is a model of bringing one's troubles directly to God.

Cross-references · 13

• 2 Kgs 19:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
• Ps 123:1–4A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
• Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• 2 Chr 6:20–42that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
• Joel 2:17–20Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
• Ps 76:1–3For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
• Ps 62:1–3For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
• 1 Kgs 9:3Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
• Ps 143:6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
• 1 Kgs 8:38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
• Isa 37:1When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
• 1 Kgs 8:28–30Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

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