2 Chronicles 28:8

Of their brethren. — Heightening the barbarity of the deed. So 2 Chronicles 28:11.

Two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters. — See Note on 2 Chronicles 28:6. Sennacherib boasts that in the war against Hezekiah he took forty-six strong cities of Judah, and carried off 200,150 captives. The number of the text is thus corroborated from a foreign and wholly unrelated source. The thrilling narrative of Kings (2 Kings 18-19) says nothing of the carrying away of all these captives by the Assyrian invader, the interest of the writer being centred on Jerusalem. With this omission that of the facts related in the present section may be compared.