2 Chronicles 32:21 NIV

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:21

The Lord sent an angel - See 2 Kings 19:36 ; (note), and the note there. House of his god - Nisroch. They that came forth of his own bowels - His sons Adrammelech and Sharezer. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

The weakness that bodes strength; the defiant strength that bodes shame efface. One of the most fruitful sources of strength in the individual character is according to the trustfulness that may be in it-the absence, or all but entire absence, of it on the one hand, and the larger or lesser bulk of it on the other. Trustfulness is a sure turning-point—a determining feature in the original shaping and in the growing formation of any character. The direction in which that trustfulness goes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:9-23

Sennacherib and Hezekiah: abasement and exaltation. We have here brought out in very vivid contrast— I. THE HISTORY OF THE HAUGHTY . 1 . Appearances are all on its side. It has apparently overwhelming numbers, superior military training and equipments, the prestige of previous success and acknowledged worldly power. 2 . It is honeycombed with spiritual evil. It is (3) pride, and its accompanying vain-gloriousness ( 2 Chronicles 32:13-15 ); 3 . It draws... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:16-23

The invasion of Sennacherib: 2. The great deliverance. I. SENNACHERIB AND HIS GENERALS . Their renewed efforts to take the city. 1 . The letter of Sennacherib to Hezekiah. ( 2 Chronicles 32:17 .) The tartan with his assistants having failed to either storm Jerusalem or intimidate its inhabitants, returned, or more probably despatched, Rabshakeh to his master for further instructions. Sennacherib was now at Libnah, a few miles nearer Jerusalem than Lachish, which in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:21

The exact matter corresponding with this one verse is embraced by verses 35-37 in the parallel ( 2 Kings 19:1-37 .). It gives the number of slain as a hundred and eighty-five thousand. It does not speak of the heavy proportion of leaders and captains lost. It leads us to suppose that for all survivers it was a surprise in the morning—that silent vision of the dead in such vast array. Stating, on the other hand, in mere historic dry detail, the return of Sennacherib to his own land, his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:9-22

The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2 Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes).2 Chronicles 32:10In the siege - Perhaps “in straitness” (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country.2 Chronicles 32:13fathers - i. e. “predecessors.” Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 32:21

2 Chronicles 32:21. The Lord sent an angel The Jewish comment, termed the Targum, says, The Word of the Lord (the Eternal Word) sent Gabriel to do this execution, and that it was done with lightning, and in the passover night, the same night wherein the firstborn in Egypt were slain. Which cut off the mighty men, and the leaders and captains With a vast number of common soldiers, 2 Kings 19:35. They that came forth of his own bowels slew him See 2 Kings 19:37. And with him the Assyrian... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:9-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:9-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:16-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 32:9-22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 32:21

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