2 Ki. 19:14-19, Varieties of Escape, Deliverance

2 Ki 6:26: woman cries for help during famine

2 Ki 6:27ab: king's answer: if Lord doesn't help, I can't help

2 Ki 13:5: Lord provided deliverer for Israel fr Aram

2 Ki 14:27: Lord saved Israel by Jeroboam son of Jehoash

2 Ki 16:7: Ahaz asks Assyrian king to save him

2 Ki 19:19: Hezekiah asks God to deliver fr. hand of Aram

How important this is!  The long range purpose of salvation is not the comfort of man but the glory of God.

2 Ki 19:34: God promises to defend, save city

1 Chr 11:14: Lord brings great victory over Philistines

1 Chr 16:35: Psalm: cry out, "Save us, O God our Savior"

·       1 Chr 16:35: "Save us O God our Savior"

2 Chr 20:9: Jehoshaphat cries to God in distress to hear, save

2 Chr 32:22: the Lord saved Hezekiah & Jerusalem fr Sennacherib

Neh 9:27ab: in time of Judges God gave deliverers who rescued them fr enemies

·       Job 5:4: Eliphaz: his children are far from safety

·       Job 5:11: Eliphaz: those who mourn lifted to safety

Job 5:15: God saves needy fr sword of powerful (Eliphaz)

Job 22:29: God will save downcast (Eliphaz)

Job 26:2: Job, in sarcasm: friends saved the feeble arm

Job 40:14: if Job can do what God does then his own rt hand can save him

That was profound.  For Job to be saved from his sufferings requires the right hand of God.  In the end, God’s deliverance was first His sustaining Job through the trial.  Then He restored more than what He lost.  This brings us to the Psalms where “deliverance”/salvation is the frequent context for these great hymns.  We continue to see that the situations are “earthly,” but those who are delivered are those who are spiritually in tune with the LORD.  Salvation/deliverance is through faith!

Psa 3:7: Arise O Lord, deliver me O my God

Psa 6:4: turn O Lord & deliver (halas, delivered by removal or be equipping/ arming) me, save me bec of your unfailing love

Psa 7:1: save (salvation, liberation, being victorious) & deliver (bnasal, to snatch away, save;) fr all who pursue me

As you can see, the LORD has various ways to deliver.  As 1 Cor. 10:13 says: He will make a way of escape.

Psa 7:10: God most High saves the upright in heart

Psa 12:1: help Lord for the godly are no more

·       Psa 12:5: God to protect them from those who malign them

Psa 17:7: God saves by his rt hand