2 Chronicles 32:21

_AND THE LORD SENT AN ANGEL, WHICH CUT OFF ALL THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, AND THE LEADERS AND CAPTAINS IN THE CAMP OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA. SO HE RETURNED WITH SHAME OF FACE TO HIS OWN LAND. AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE OF HIS GOD, THEY THAT CAME FORTH OF HIS OWN BOWELS SLEW HIM THERE WITH THE SWORD._ AN ANGEL ... CUT OFF ALL THE MIGHTY MEN - (see the notes at 2 Kings 19:35.)...

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....

Verse 2 Chronicles 32:21. _THE LORD SENT AN ANGEL_] See 2 Kings 19:36, and the note there. _HOUSE OF HIS GOD_] Nisroch. _THEY THAT CAME FORTH OF HIS OWN BOWELS_] His sons Adrammelech and Sharezer....

The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2 Kings 18:17; where see the notes). 2 Chronicles 32:10 IN 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 32:13 FATHERS - i. e. “predecessors.” Sennacherib really belonged to a dy

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

AND THE LORD SENT AN ANGEL,.... The Targum is, "the Word of the Lord sent Gabriel;'' Josephus a takes this angel, or messenger sent of God, to be the pestilence; and others suppose it to be a hot pestilential wind, common in the eastern countries, called "Samiel", or the poison wind, by which multitudes are sometimes destroyed at once; of which Thevenot and other travellers make mention, Job 27:21, Psalms 91:6, but be it as it may, it was sent of God, was under his direction, and by his power and providence did the execution according to his prediction: WHICH CUT OFF ALL THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, AND THE LEADERS AND CAPTAINS IN THE CAMP OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA; the generals and officers of his army, with the common soldiers, to the number of 185,000,...

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...

RETURNED WITH SHAME. This is referred to in Hezekiah's "Songs of the degrees" (Psalms 129:4; Psalms 129:5). Revised Version "be ashamed and turned backward". See App-67. THEY THAT CAME FORTH OF HIS OWN BOWELS. The phrase occurs only here. See notes on 2 Kings 19:37....

_all the mighty_men] In number 185,000 according to 2 Kings 19:35 and Isaiah 37:36. The agency was probably the plague, which is pictured as a destroying angel in 2 Samuel 24:16. _And when he was come_ The murder of Sennacherib did not occur till some 20 years after his Judæan expedition (circ. 701 b.c.), i.e. not till 681 b.c. _they that came forth_ Render, SOME (or ONE) THAT CAME FORTH. The Chronicler no doubt follows Isaiah 37:38, "Adrammelech and Sharezer _his sons_smote him"; but the accuracy of the present text of this passage of Isaiah is doubtful, for in the parallel passage ...