2 Chronicles 32:16-23 NASB

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:21

21. an angel . . . cut off all the mighty men—(See on :-). :-. HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

4. The invasion by Sennacherib 32:1-23In a few details this account differs from the one in 2 Kings 18-20 and Isaiah 36-37. It was after Hezekiah’s acts of faithfulness that God tested his trust (2 Chronicles 32:1). Many of Judah’s other good kings had followed God faithfully, only to abandon faith in Him later in life as a result of pride (e.g., Solomon, Uzziah, et al.). In this respect, Hezekiah failed too (2 Chronicles 32:25).Hezekiah’s preparations for Sennacherib’s siege did not indicate... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

M. Hezekiah chs. 29-32In contrast to Ahaz, we can see Hezekiah’s love for Yahweh in how he cared for the temple. Ahaz’s reign was full of war, but Hezekiah enjoyed peace. God rewarded Hezekiah’s spiritual restoration of Judah with a remarkable military deliverance. Yet "good king" Hezekiah was not the completely faithful Son of David whose kingdom God had promised to establish forever (1 Chronicles 17:11-14)."He is the ’golden boy’ of Chronicles." [Note: Wilcock, p. 242.] The Chronicler gave... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

Reign of Hezekiah (concluded)This chapter abbreviates the account of Sennacherib’s invasion as related in 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 20:21, but supplements it by various particulars respecting Hezekiah’s preparation to meet the attack.3. To stop the waters, etc.] The chief spring which was thus stopped (or ’hidden’) was the fountain of Gihon: see 2 Chronicles 32:30. 4. The brook] lit. ’torrent-valley.’ The Gihon spring was in the ravine of the Kidron.6. The street of the gate] RV ’the broad place... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

(1-23) Invasion and Divine overthrow of Sennacherib. ( Comp. 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 19:37. ) The Assyrian monarch’s own record of the campaign may be read on his great hexagonal prism of terra-cotta, preserved in the British Museum, containing an inscription in 487 lines of cuneiform writing, which is lithographed in the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, III. 38, 39, and printed in G. Smith’s History of Sennacherib. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:9-21

(9-21) A brief summary of what is related in 2 Kings 18:17 to 2 Kings 19:37. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:16

(16) Spake yet more.—See the parallel passages in Kings and Isaiah. The verse shows that the chronicler does not profess to give a full report.Against the Lord God.—Literally, against Jehovah the (true) God. “Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? . . . the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 37:23). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:17

(17) He wrote also letters to rail on.—And letters wrote he to reproach (Isaiah 37:23). Sennacherib wrote to Hezekiah demanding submission, after the failure of the mission of the Tartan and his companions (2 Kings 19:8-14). If, therefore, the chronicler had been careful about the strictly chronological sequence of events, this verse would have followed rather than preceded 18, 19. As it is, the remark is thrown in here as a parenthesis, in the middle of the account of the behaviour of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:18

(18) They cried . . . on the wall.—LXX. and Vulg., “he cried” (i.e., the Rab-sak). (See 2 Kings 18:26-28.)To affright them, and to trouble (terrify, scare) them; that they might take the city.—This is the chronicler’s own statement of the purpose of the words of the Rab-sak reported in 2 Kings 18:28-35.To affright.—The pi‘el of yârç, “to fear,” occurs besides, thrice in Nehemiah 6:9; Nehemiah 6:14; Nehemiah 6:19; and once in 2 Samuel 14:15. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:19

(19) They spake against.—Or, spake of Literally, unto. (Comp. Psalms 2:7; Psalms 3:2.)People.—Peoples.The work.—The versions have “works.” Instead of repeating the offers which the Assyrian envoys made to the people of Jerusalem, to induce them to submit, the chronicler dwells on that blasphemy against the God of Israel which was the cause of the Assyrian overthrow.The work of the hands of man.—A reminiscence of 2 Kings 19:18 : “And they put their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but... read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:9-21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:16

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 32:19

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