Verses 33-36
33-36. Thus far strongly assuring Hezekiah, Isaiah here gives definite details of the grounds of this assurance.
The king of Assyria… shall not come into this city… nor cast a bank A familiar mode of describing an ancient siege.
By the way that he came… shall he return Without even an attack on Egypt, though that was the chief point of Sennacherib’s intended assault. He shall keep to the thoroughfare on the plains, over the pass of Megiddo, onward northeasterly, etc. This is said in pursuance of God’s plan, on that very night, (2 Kings 19:35,) to smite with death from plague or otherwise, one hundred and eighty-five thousand of this great army. The history of this event is so fragmentary that facts are wanting to decide where, how, in what proportions whether united in one body again or still separated in parts this army received this catastrophe.
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