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Isaiah becomes a historian in this chapter. Many of the prophesies of the foregoing chapters are brought to completion in this chapter. It gives an account of the Armies of Assyria that invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem and the miraculous defeat of these armies. It is identical to the account found in II Kings Chapters 18 thru 20. It is believed that this chapter and the following chapter were written some 300 years before the chapters in II Kings.
Included also in this chapter is a record of the success that the Assyrians had on other undefended cities of Judah and the conference that was suggested by the Assyrians between their leaders and King Hezekiah of Judah. When this failed we have recorded here the speech that was made by Rabshakeh which was designed to scare Hezekiah into surrendering and when it did not, he spoke to the people of Jerusalem in an attempt to get them to desert Hezekiah.
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