At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
The rebuke speaks of God's overnight deliverance of Jerusalem when Sennacherib's Assyrian army lay before its walls and the angel of the Lord smote a hundred fourscore and five thousand men in the camp. Those smitten included all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and captains, numbering 185,000 men destroyed in a single night. At that rebuke the Assyrian chariots and horses with their riders were put into a death-sleep, the chariot and horse cast into a dead sleep.
This shows that the God of Jacob, the God of the Hebrews, prevailed over the proud Assyrian. By that overthrow He vindicated His honor before the surrounding nations and in the eyes of the surrounding nations. The rebuke answered the earnest prayers and entreaties of His people for deliverance, offered mingled with confession of sin and tears. It was the plea of a people who in great need trusted wholly in His power to save and in whole trust in His power to save. The deliverance filled Jerusalem with holy joy and filled the temple courts with songs of solemn praise.
The rebuke speaks of God's overnight deliverance of Jerusalem when Sennacherib's Assyrian army lay before its walls and the angel of the Lord smote a hundred fourscore and five thousand men in the camp. Those smitten included all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and captains, numbering 185,000 men destroyed in a single night. At that rebuke the Assyrian chariots and horses with their riders were put into a death-sleep, the chariot and horse cast into a dead sleep.
This shows that the God of Jacob, the God of the Hebrews, prevailed over the proud Assyrian. By that overthrow He vindicated His honor before the surrounding nations and in the eyes of the surrounding nations. The rebuke answered the earnest prayers and entreaties of His people for deliverance, offered mingled with confession of sin and tears. It was the plea of a people who in great need trusted wholly in His power to save and in whole trust in His power to save. The deliverance filled Jerusalem with holy joy and filled the temple courts with songs of solemn praise.