REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONCLUDED) This chapter abbreviates the account of Sennacherib's invasion as related in 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 20:21, but supplements it by various particulars respecting Hezekiah's preparation to meet the attack.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO STOP THE WATERS, etc.] The chief spring which was thus stopped (or 'hidden') was the fountain of Gihon: see 2 Chronicles 32:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BROOK] lit. 'torrent-valley.' The Gihon spring was in the ravine of the Kidron.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STREET OF THE GATE] RV 'the broad place at the gate': where the people were wont to assemble.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS] The Chronicler omits all account of the surrender of Hezekiah related in 2 Kings 18:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY CRIED] i.e. the 'servants' of 2 Chronicles 32:16. In the Jews' speech] see 2 Kings 18:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
GUIDED THEM] LXX has 'gave them rest,' which suits the context better.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THOSE DAYS] In 2 Chronicles 32:24 the writer summarises very briefly what is related at length in 2 Kings 20 Isaiah 38.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT IT, etc.] better, 'stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon and brought them straight down' (or, 'underground') 'westward to the city of David.' Gihon lay to the E. of Jerusalem, and Hezekiah conveyed its waters by a subterranean aqueduct to the pool of Siloam at the foot of the Templ... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AMBASSADORS] i.e. of Merodachbaladan, the king of Babylon: see 2 Kings 20:12.; Isaiah 39.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And_ IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS, etc.] The conjunction AND should be omitted, the VISION OF ISAIAH being incorporated in THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL, like the 'book of Jehu the son of Hanani': 2 Chronicles 20:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE CHIEFEST] RV 'in the ascent': i.e. on the road that led up to the sepulchres.... [ Continue Reading ]