歴代志下 32:10 JC

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

CRITICAL NOTES.] Sen. invades Israel (2 Chronicles 32:1-5); H.’s preparations to meet him (2 Chronicles 32:6-8); Sen.’s seductions (2 Chronicles 32:9-15); Sen.’s letter (2 Chronicles 32:16-20); destruction of Assyrian host (2 Chronicles 32:21-26); end and reign of Hez. (2 Chronicles 32:27-33). Cf. parallel account in 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:37, and Isaiah 36, 37.2 Chronicles 32:1-5.—Sen. invades Israel. After, i.e., 14th year of Hez. (2 Kings 18:13). Estab., faithfulness or truth on part of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:9-16

2 Chronicles 32:9-16 Let us read the character of modern hostility to Christianity in that of Sennacherib and his marshals. I. The first thing which attracts our notice is their boastful-ness. The Assyrian monarch evidently had no mean opinion of himself. "Know ye not," he says, "what I and my fathers have done?" Self-conceit is the most obvious quality of the enemies of God. II. A second quality by which this kind of hostility to religion is characterized is its special animosity to the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

Chapter 32Now in chapter 32, we find that, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria was coming against them, he entered into Judah, and he encamped against the fenced cities, he thought to win them for himself. And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, he took counsel with the princes and with his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him ( 2 Chronicles 32:1-3 ).Now he said, "Why should... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

2 Chronicles 32:1 . Sennacherib king of Assyria, Our knowledge of the once great and flourishing empire of the Assyrians, is very imperfect. Berosus, a native of Chaldea, has written the most; Herodotus, and Diodorus Siculus, are the principal authors who afford fragments of its history. Nineveh was the capital, and it contained one hundred thousand infants; and of course a population of not less than five hundred thousand inhabitants. We are ignorant of the extent of the Assyrian empire;... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:10

2Ch 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? Ver. 10. Whereon do ye trust. ] Like rhetoric hereunto useth Antichrist, where he would seduce. See Sadolet’s sugared Epistle to the Citizens of Geneva, written in Calvin’s absence, who fully and elegantly answered it from Strasburg, where for a while he lived an exile. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Chronicles 32:10

Thus saith: 2 Kings 18:19, Isaiah 36:4 siege: Heb. strong-hold read more