2 Chronicles 32:24

_IN THOSE DAYS HEZEKIAH WAS SICK TO THE DEATH, AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD: AND HE SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND HE GAVE HIM A SIGN._ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the Lord - (see the notes at 2 Kings 20:1.) AND HE SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND HE GAVE HIM A SIGN. х_ WAYO'MER_ (H559) _ LOW_ (H3807a). This verb never signifies to speak with any one; it means to say, and is always followed by the thing said. Gesenius translates the words here. 'and He promised him' (namely, what Hezekiah had prayed for), or suggests that there is a hiatus between _ LOW_ (H3807a) and _ YO'MER_ (H559).]...

24-33 God left Hezekiah to himself, that, by this trial and his weakness in it, what was in his heart might be known; that he was not so perfect in grace as he thought he was. It is good for us to know ourselves, and our own weakness and sinfulness, that we may not be conceited, or self-confident, but may always live in dependence upon Divine grace. We know not the corruption of our own hearts, nor what we shall do if God leaves us to ourselves. His sin was, that his heart was lifted up. What need have great men, and good men, and useful men, to study their own infirmities and follies, and their obligations to free grace, that they may never think highly of themselves; but beg earnestly of God, that he will always keep them humble! Hezekiah made a bad return to God for his favours, by making even those favours the food and fuel of his pride. Let us shun the occasions of sin: let us avoi...

Verse 2 Chronicles 32:24. _HEZEKIAH WAS SICK_] See 2 Kings 20:1, c., and the notes there....

Compare 2 Kings 20 and notes. The “sign” is not (as in the margin) the miraculous cure, but the going back of the shadow on the dial of Ahaz (see 2 Chronicles 32:31)....

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

IN THOSE DAYS HEZEKIAH WAS SICK,.... Of which sickness, and of his prayer, and of the sign given him, see Isaiah 38:1 and the notes there....

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...

IN THOSE DAYS. While Sennacherib's host was still surrounding Jerusalem. This is. brief summary of what is described in 2 Kings 2. and Isaiah 38. GAVE HIM. SIGN. Recorded in 2 Chronicles 20:1. The going back of the shadow on the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees, which caused him to give the title of the fifteen "Songs of the degrees" (Psa 120. 134). See App-67....

AND HE SPAKE UNTO HIM— _And he was entreated of him._ See the 13th verse of the next chapter....