Verses 20-22
20-22. Rabshakeh continues his impious, Jehovah-defying argument, but to no avail. They, the Jews, held their peace, according to the instruction of their king Hezekiah. Rabshakeh’s eloquence was spent in vain. The God-fearing Hezekiah had succeeded well in his reformation of the masses.
A few worldly or false ones at court had not reformed, and they doubtless had caused the king to fall in with their temporizing policy of securing a promise of help from Egypt. It is fair to believe, with Delitzsch, that the commissioners, on Rabshakeh’s turning to the people on the wall, retired at once to Hezekiah, rending their clothes in grief at the disgrace they had experienced.
The second attempt of the Assyrians to force the surrender of Jerusalem begins at Isaiah 37:8, and closes the chapter.
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