2 Chronicles 32:20

For this cause. — Upon this (‘al zôth). The reference is to the Assyrian blasphemies against Jehovah, which Hezekiah urged in his prayer for deliverance (2 Kings 19:16), and to which Isaiah referred in his prophetic answer (Isaiah 37:23). The prayer of Hezekiah is given in 2 Kings 19:15; Isaiah 37:15. The parallel passages do not say that Isaiah also prayed; but 2 Kings 19:2, and Isaiah 37:2, report that the king sent a deputation of nobles to the prophet, requesting his prayers “for the remnant that were left.”

Cried to heaven. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 30:27; 1 Samuel 5:12.