Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, whereon do ye trust ,.... On what power in heaven or on earth? that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem ? hold out against the siege of it, and do not deliver it up. read more
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine, and by thirst ,.... Suggesting that would be their case if they did not surrender: saying, the Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? See Gill on Isaiah 36:15 . read more
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places ,.... For the sense of this and the three following verses, see the notes on Isaiah 36:17 ; see Gill on Isaiah 36:18 , Isaiah 36:19 , Isaiah 36:20 read more
And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. Than what is here recorded, as may be read in 2 Kings 18:1 , and Isaiah 36:1 . read more
He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel ,.... See 2 Kings 19:9 . read more
Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall ,.... The messengers of Sennacherib, particularly Rabshakeh the chief speaker; though they were desired to speak in the Syrian language, Isaiah 36:11 , but this they did to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city ; to throw them into terror and confusion, that they might prevail upon them to deliver up the city to them. read more
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem ,.... The only living and true God, whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem professed to be their God, and who was worshipped by them in the temple there: as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man ; they made no difference between the one and the other, but spoke as freely and as contemptibly of the one as of the other, see Isaiah 36:19 . read more
Thus saith Sennacherib - See all these circumstances largely explained 2 Kings 18:17-36 (note). read more
Wrote also letters - See 2 Kings 19:9 , 2 Kings 19:14 . read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:9-23
This story of the rage and blasphemy of Sennacherib, Hezekiah's prayer, and the deliverance of Jerusalem by the destruction of the Assyrian army, we had more at large in the book of Kings, 2 Kgs. 18:1-19:37 It is contracted here, yet large enough to show these three things:? I. The impiety and malice of the church's enemies. Sennacherib has his hands full in besieging Lachish (2 Chron. 32:9), but hears that Hezekiah is fortifying Jerusalem and encouraging his people to stand it out; and... read more