2 Chronicles 32:9

_BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, BE NOT AFRAID NOR DISMAYED FOR THE KING OF ASSYRIA, NOR FOR ALL THE MULTITUDE THAT IS WITH HIM: FOR THERE BE MORE WITH US THAN WITH HIM:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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 32:9. _AFTER THIS DID SENNACHERIB_] Having received the silver and gold mentioned above, he withdrew his army, but shortly after he sent Rab-shakeh with a blasphemous message. This is the fact mentioned here....

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

AFTER THIS DID SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA SEND HIS SERVANTS TO JERUSALEM,.... Who are mentioned by name, 2 Kings 18:17 this was after Hezekiah had given him a large quantity of silver and gold to depart, and he did depart from him, 2 Kings 18:14 BUT HE HIMSELF LAID SIEGE AGAINST LACHISH, and all his power with him; one of the cities of Judah, see Isaiah 36:2, from hence he dispatched them UNTO HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, AND UNTO ALL JUDAH THAT WERE AT JERUSALEM; who had retired thither for safety, upon the invasion of their country by the king of Assyria....

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 THIS. Omitting the account of the surrender of 2 Kings 18:14. SEND HIS SERVANTS. Compare 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:1.Isaiah 10:8. Isa 10:36. Isa 10:37. AGAINST LACNISH.. difficult task, for Rab-shakeh found Sennacherib had abandoned the siege (2 Kings 19:8). Joshua had found it the same (see note on "second day", Joshua 10:31; Joshua 10:32). In...

_his servants_ Three of these are specified in 2 Kin. by their titles, viz. the Tartan ("Commander-in-chief"), the Rab-saris ("Chief of the Heads"), and the Rab-shakeh ("Chief of the officers"). _but he_himself laid siege _against Lachish_ R.V. NOW HE WAS BEFORE LACHISH. The capture of Lachish by Sennacherib and its spoliation are shewn on an Assyrian relief now in the British Museum. The king himself besieged Lachish because it was of more importance for the main object of the campaign than Jerusalem. Sennacherib's objective was Egypt (Herod. ii. 141), and Lachish (_Tell-el-Ḥesy, Bädeker_, p. 154), lay directly in his path....