Verse Lens · Context pointer
Isaiah 36:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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Role in This Section
The historical narrative or dated oracle carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came…” at Isaiah 36:1 as part of “Sennacherib's Field Commander Reaches Jerusalem.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 36:1–3
Read Isaiah 36:1 with 36:1–3. By itself, “Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: The narrative dates Assyria's capture of fortified cities and places Judah's officials before the invading commander's message.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Isaiah 36:1–3. The historical narrative or dated oracle carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came…” at Isaiah 36:1 as part of “Sennacherib's Field Commander Reaches Jerusalem.” The literary form and this limit govern it: Sennacherib's Field Commander Reaches Jerusalem does not authorize nationalism, war propaganda, present enemy mapping, or treating reported imperial violence as an ethical model.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 36:1–3 — Sennacherib's Field Commander Reaches JerusalemSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 36:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 36:1–3 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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