2 Chronicles 32:1

_AFTER THESE THINGS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT THEREOF, SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA CAME, AND ENTERED INTO JUDAH, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THE FENCED CITIES, AND THOUGHT TO WIN THEM FOR HIMSELF._ After these things, and the establishment thereof - ie the restoration of the temple worship The precise AFTER THESE THINGS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT THEREOF - i:e., the restoration of the temple worship. The precise date is given, 2 Kings 18:13. Bent on recovering the independence of his country, Hezekiah had determined to refuse to pay the tribute which his father had bound himself to pay to Assyria. SENNACHERIB ... ENTERED INTO JUDAH, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THE FENCED CITIES. The whole land was ravaged; the strong fortresses of Ashdod (Isaiah 20:1) and Lachish had fallen; the siege of

1-23 Those who trust God with their safety, must use proper means, else they tempt him. God will provide, but so must we also. Hezekiah gathered his people together, and spake comfortably to them. A believing confidence in God, will raise us above the prevailing fear of man. Let the good subjects and soldiers of Jesus Christ, rest upon his word, and boldly say, Since God is for us, who can be against us? By the favour of God, enemies are lost, and friends gained....

CHAPTER XXXII _Sennacherib invades Judea_, 1. _Hezekiah takes proper measures for the defence of his kingdom_, 2-6. _His exhortation_, 7, 8. _Sennacherib sends a blasphemous message to Hezekiah, and to the_ _people_, 9-15. _His servants rail against God; and he and they blaspheme most_ _grievously_, 16-19. _Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah cry to God; he answers, and the_ _Assyrians are destroyed, and Sennacherib is slain by his own_ _sons_, 20, 21....

THE ESTABLISHMENT THEREOF - literally, “the faithfulness thereof” or, in other words, “after these things had been faithfully accomplished.” 2 Chronicles 32:1 form a passage supplementary to 2 Kings 18:13....

EXPOSITION This chapter of thirty-three verses is paralleled by the sixty-one verses that begin with 2 Kings 18:13 and end with 2 Kings 19:37; and by Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:1. Our chapter gives, as might be anticipated, but a very partial and somewhat broken account, therefore,_ _of this stretch of Hezekiah's career, and no adequate impression whatever of the great power of some portions of the parallel. A close comparison of the two places leaves us tolerably clear as to the order and consecutiveness of the history, although perhaps not entirely so. The style of our present chapter betrays the usual marks of di

AFTER THESE THINGS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT THEREOF,.... What are recorded in the preceding Chapter s, when matters were well settled, especially with respect to religion and temple service, and when Hezekiah was well established in the throne of his kingdom, had fought with and defeated the Philistines, and cast off the Assyrian yoke, and was in very prosperous circumstances; for it was in the fourteenth year of his reign that what follows was done: SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA CAME AND ENTERED INTO JUDAH, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THE FENCED CITIES, AND THOUGHT TO WIN THEM FOR HIMSELF; or to break them, or into them; or through them y to break down the walls to take them, and join them to himself, as the Targum, and he did take them, see 2 Kings 18:13. y לבקעם "ad perrumpendum eas", Montanus; "diffindere illas", Piscator; "abscindere", Schmidt....

CHAPTER 32 SENNACHERIB'S INVASION, THE DELIVERANCE, AND THE PASSING OF HEZEKIAH _ 1. Sennacherib's invasion (2 Chronicles 32:1)_ 2. The king's counsel and trust in God (2 Chronicles 32:3) 3. Sennacherib's threatening and arrogance (2 Chronicles 32:9) 4. Sennacherib's defiance of God (2 Chronicles 32:17) 5. Hezekiah's and Isaiah's prayer (2 Chronicles 32:20) 6. The deliverance ...

2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 20:1). The Chronicler in this long section writes, from his own point of view, much that is quite unhistorical. The three main subjects treated by him here are Hezekiah's reopening of the Temple, the Passover, and the appointment of the Temple officials. In...

AFTER THESE THINGS. Thirteen years after the events in chapter 31. ESTABLISHMENT. "[done in] faithfulness". to win. Hebrew to break them up. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis,_ thus: "to break them up [and annex them] for himself"....

_After these things, and the establishment_thereof] R.V. AFTER THESE THINGS, AND THIS FAITHFULNESS. The phrase is a _Hendiadys_and stands for, "After these faithful dealings." _Sennacherib_ This king (_Sanḥerib_in Hebrew, _Sin-aḥi-irib_[_-irba_ in Assyrian, the Σαναχάριβος of Herod. ii. 141) reigned 705 681 b.c. He was the son of Sargon (Isaiah 20:1), father of Esar-haddon (2 Kings 19:37; Ezra 4:2), and grandfather of Asnapper [Osnappar, R.V.] (Ezra 4:10), the well-known Σαρδανάπαλλος of Herod. ii. 150, the _Asshur-bani-pal_of the Assyrian inscriptions. Under this dynasty Assyria reached the height of its power. The