2 Chronicles 32:9-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:12

This misrepresenting of Hezekiah's pious actions is thought by some to have been innocent ignorance on the part of Sennacherib. Yet it is scarcely credible. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:13

Some of these deeds of Sennacherib and his fathers , i.e. predecessors in the kingdom of Assyria, are mentioned in detail in 2 Kings 17:1-41 , passim . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:15

The urgency of Sennacherib's appeal to the people was of course his way of trying to save work of actual siege, fighting, etc; to himself and his army. The how much less of the message of Sennacherib probably meant that his estimate of the your God i.e. the God of Israel, was measured partly by the comparative smallness and unwarlike character of the nation of Judah, when set side by side with the great heathen nations, and partly by the spiritual and invisible character and being of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:16

And his servants spoke yet more. A glimpse of the fact that the compiler of our book very designedly excerpted only what he thought needful from very much more abundant resources. 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 32:17

Letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel (so 2 Kings 19:8-14 ). The rumour of the approach of "Tirhakah King of Ethiopia" ( 2 Chronicles 32:9 ) quickened Sennacherib's anxiety to make short work with the conflict at Jerusalem, by intimidating the people to an early collapse of their resistance,. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:18

In the Jews' speech (see again 2 Kings 18:26 , 2 Kings 18:27 ). The last three clauses of this verse are additional matter to that contained in the parallel. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:19

As against the gods of the people of the earth, the work of the hands of men. Our compiler, at all events, signalizes the difference, which Sennacherib worse than minimizes, between the God of Israel and the so-called gods of the surrounding heathen nations. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:20

For the prayer of Hezekiah, see 2 Kings 19:14-19 ; and for the place of the prayer or prayers of Isaiah, and the indications of their having been offered, see alike 2 Chronicles 19:4-7 , and the verses of the grand passage, verses 20-34. 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

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