John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:1
And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it ,.... The report that his ministers made to him of the blasphemies and threatenings of Rabshakeh, the general of the Assyrian army: that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth ; the one because of the blasphemies he heard; the other cause of the destruction he and his people were threatened with: and went into the house of the Lord ; the temple, to pray to him there: he could have prayed in his own house, but he chose... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-7
We may observe here, 1. That the best way to baffle the malicious designs of our enemies against us is to be driven by them to God and to our duty and so to fetch meat out of the eater. Rabshakeh intended to frighten Hezekiah from the Lord, but it proves that he frightens him to the Lord. The wind, instead of forcing the traveller's coat from him, makes him wrap it the closer about him. The more Rabshakeh reproaches God the more Hezekiah studies to honour him, by rending his clothes for the... read more