The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib King of Assyria departed, and went and returned. The, original is more lively, and more expressive of haste. Sennacherib, it is said, "decamped, and departed, and returned"—the heaping up of the verbs expressing the hurry of the march home (Keil); comp. 1 Kings 19:3 . And dwelt at Nineveh. Nineveh was Sennacherib's favorite residence. He had built himself a palace, there, marked by the modern mound of Koyunjik. Sargon, his father, had dwelt mainly at Dur-Sargina or... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 19:35-37
The mighty deliverance. God's word was not long in being fulfilled. That very night the angel of the Lord smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the host of the Assyrians. In few words—for the end is as good as reached with Isaiah's oracle—the sacred narrator sums up the facts of the catastrophe. I. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB 'S ARMY . 1. Its historic truth . On all hands, though Sennacherib's own annals pass over the event in silence, this seems to be... read more