Day 212-11

2Ch 32:8  With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

I liked that phrase, the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah.

rested - H5564 - A primitive root; to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense).

Genesis 27:37 - sustained; Exodus 29:10 - shall put (their hands upon the head of the bullock); most of the usages have to do with the laying or laid hands upon someone or something.  Intriguing.  In Judges 16:29 it refers to the pillars which borne up the building which Samson took down.

Psalm 3:5 - I laid me down and slept; and I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

Psalm 37:17 - For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

Numerous other references to God upholding...one usage in the Song of Solomon.

Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.  (Isaiah 26:3)

This one was ticklish...who is the *him* references...all God?

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.  (Isaiah 59:16)

If I try to substitute the word God or Lord...

And God saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore God's arm brought salvation unto (who?) God or man; and God's righteousness, it sustained (who?) God or man?

Isa 36:2  And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

What is a fuller's field?

H3526 - A primitive root; to trample; hence to wash (properly by stamping with the feet), whether literally (including the fulling process) or figuratively.

That helped not at all.  Well...almost all of the 51 times the word is used it is translated in relation to wash or washing clothes.

Gill's commentary was quite enlightening:

and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers' field; where they spread their clothes, as the Targum, having washed them in the pool, of which see Isa_7:3. Ben Melech thus describes the pool, conduit, and highway: the pool is a ditch, built with stone and lime, where rainwater was collected, or where they drew water from the fountain, and the waters were gathered into this pool; and there was in this pool a hole, which they stopped, until the time they pleased to fetch water, out of the pool: and the conduit was a ditch near to the pool, and they brought water out of the pool into the conduit, when they chose to drink, or wash garments: the highway was a way paved with stones, so that they could walk upon it in rainy days; and here they stood and washed their garments in the waters of the conduit, and in the field they spread them to the sun. This pool lay outside the city, yet just by the walls of it, which showed the daring insolence of Rabshakeh to come so very nigh, for he was in the hearing of the men upon the walls, Isa_36:12, this Rabshakeh is by the Jewish writers thought to be an apostate Jew, because he spoke in the Jews' language; and some of them, as Jerome says, will have him to be a son of the Prophet Isaiah's, but without any foundation, Procopius, in 2Ki_18:18, thinks it probable that he was a Hebrew, who either had fled on his own accord to the Assyrians, or was taken captive by them.

Not much online to give me more details and/or background.  I found this, which gave a little more information.

The word 'fuller' is only used 4 times...the last instance:

Mar 9:3  And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

Made me think of how we are washed by HIS blood...whiter than snow.

Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.