Why are these two the same? 2kings 19 and Isaiah 37?

Answer 1

I don't know but I've used them at church for Bible bowl, and other Bible games at church.

Answer 2

Isaiah’s writings are extensively interwoven with many other parts of the Bible. A century or more after Isaiah’s time, Jeremiah wrote the record found in the books of Kings, and it is interesting to observe that what is recorded at 2 Kings 18:13 to 20:19 is essentially the same as that found in Isaiah chapters 36 to 39. Not only do other prophets cover matters similar to those considered by Isaiah but there are numerous specific references made to the writings of Isaiah themselves by other Bible writers.

Answer 3

Isaiah 37

Answer 4

Isaiah lived and prophesied during the reign of Hezekiah. The passages are written by different writers. The 2Kings passage was written as history. Jewish tradition states that Jeremiah was the author of I and II Kings. The Isaiah passage was written by Isaiah, from a first person perspective.

Answer 5

You will find many books in the bible quoting each other as they studied the writings of the previous prophets of old.

Besides the bible isn't written in chronological order nor is it complete. There are many prophetic writings that have been removed due to the fact that if some scholar didn't like what was being said they would just leave it out.

So we are left with a unfinished book

Answer 6

Hey datasapien, I'm wondering how two verses that are the same would be a contradiction. Maybe you should read the definition of a contradiction a few more times.

The two verses are the same for emphasis. The Bible does this several times so that God can get his point across.

Answer 7

This is the passing down of the prophecy of the demise of Assyria. In 2nd Kings, Isaiah is referenced as being counselled by Hezekiah, the King. Since Isaiah was also involved in the discussion with Hezekiah, and Isaiah was a prophet of God, this is merely a validation of the prophecy of the destruction of the Godless kings in the middle east.

Isaiah 37:5-7
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

The Prophet, Isaiah, goes to the King of Asyria--(now Syria)--and tells him that the servants in Syria have blasphemed God (Jehovah). And through Isaiah, God has said that he will kill the king that blasphemed him with his own sword.

Then in both books, Isaiah and 2nd Kings (which is a chronical of all the kings), it tells how Asyria has destroyed all of the nations, have usurped Jehovah's authority and made idols and gods out of wood and other matierals.

Hezekiah talks to Jehovah and repeats to him the prophecies of Isaiah; that Lebenon will be crushed, that Syria will be crushed, and that even Israel will be crushed because of their sin and blaspheming. But that out of Jerusalem will come a new start, a new life---a new birth that will be blessed by God. Then God will use the repentent Israel to battle Assyria and other nations that are sinning against God. Their "kings" will be killed and their sons will be exiled to Ararat, and the son of the King of Assyria fled to Armenia.

Answer 8

In my opinion the Bible has several books that sort of in a way corresspond with each other. For example the people who wrote the books had different views or ways of telling the stories. They expressed it throughout the book several times to try to emphasize it better or explain it better, though in a different way. I know of two places in there that also have the same story (Christ's birth).

Answer 9

Because 1st and 2nd Kings were writen by historians and Isaiah by the prophet. They relate the same events and time period.

Answer 10

because the work of the prophets overlapped with the history of the kings. But it is an interesting question why they are exactly the same.

Answer 11

How about this answer? The bible was written by men for other lessor men, and they copied scripts from different texts, made a mistake and got caught in their forgery.