John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:16
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
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John Gill
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:17
He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel ,.... See 2 Kings 19:9 . read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:18
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
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:19
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
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:20
And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. To God in heaven; of the prayer of Hezekiah on this account, see Isaiah 37:15 , and the notes there; See Gill on Isaiah 37:15 , Isaiah 37:16 , Isaiah 37:17 , Isaiah 37:18 , Isaiah 37:19 , Isaiah 37:20 and though we read not of the prayer of Isaiah, no doubt he made one, as Hezekiah desired, and since he received a message from the Lord, which he sent to Hezekiah, Isaiah... read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel ,.... The Targum is,"the Word of the Lord sent Gabriel;'Josephus F1 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 1. sect. 5. takes this angel, or messenger sent of God, to be the pestilence; and others suppose it to be a hot pestilential wind, common in the eastern countries, called "Samiel", or the poison wind, by which multitudes are sometimes destroyed at once; of which Thevenot and other travellers make mention; see Gill on Job 27:21 ; see Gill on Psalm 91:6 , but be it as it... read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:22
Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria ,.... As most clearly appeared; for no stroke was struck but by him: and from the hand of all other ; the Arabic version adds,"who were round about them;'who by this defeat were deterred from attacking them: and guided them on every side : and guarded them all around, as a shepherd leads his flock, where they may be secure from all dangers. read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:23
And many brought gifts unto the Lord to Jerusalem ,.... Even out of neighbouring nations, things which they devoted to the service of God in the temple, being convinced that this wonderful deliverance was wrought by the Lord God of Israel, and by him only: and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah ; being desirous of living in friendship with him, who appeared to be the favourite of the God of heaven: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth ; from the time... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:17
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