Isaiah 36 in the early church

[Vulgate: Isaias]

15 passages quote, allude to, or echo Isaiah 36, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 2 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 10 · 12 · 14 · 18 · 20

Isaiah 36:2

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:2	Letter to Marcellinus 9 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	uncertain, after 335

Isaiah 36:6

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:6	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 125 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Isa 36:6	Oration II Against the Arians 4 · Athanasius of Alexandria	echo, low confidence	ca. 339–346
Isa 36:6	Letter 121.2 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
Isa 36:6	Formulae of Spiritual Understanding 3 · Eucherius of Lyon	quotation, high confidence	ca. 420-430

Isaiah 36:7

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:7	Miscellanies 5.14.135 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203

Isaiah 36:8

Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:8	Miscellanies 5.14.135 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203

Isaiah 36:10

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:10	Miscellanies 5.14.135 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Isa 36:10	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 1–3 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	5th century (disputed)
Isa 36:10	On the Governance of God 7.54 · Salvian of Marseilles	quotation, high confidence	ca. 439-451

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:12	Homilies on Matthew 37.5 · John Chrysostom	quotation, high confidence	ca. 390

Isaiah 36:14

This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:14–17	On Saint Athanasius 1.40 · Lucifer of Cagliari	quotation, high confidence	ca. 356–361

Isaiah 36:18

Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:18–20	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 145–146 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	5th century (disputed)

Isaiah 36:20

Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Isa 36:20	On Saint Athanasius 1.40 · Lucifer of Cagliari	quotation, high confidence	ca. 356–361
Isa 36:20	On Cain and Abel 1.34 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 375-378