And Hezekiah rejoiced. — So of David and his people (1 Chronicles 29:9; 1 Chronicles 29:22). (Comp. also 2 Chronicles 7:10.)
That God had prepared. — In the Hebrew the article is used instead of the relative: a construction characteristic of the chronicler (1 Chronicles 26:28). Render: “And Hezekiah rejoiced... over that which God had set in order for the people,” viz., the long-suspended ordinances of the Temple worship (1 Chronicles 12:39; 1 Chronicles 15:1). Perhaps, however, lâ‘âm, “for the people,” is the mere accusative after the verb, and the sense is “rejoiced because God had prepared the people” (2 Samuel 3:30).
For the thing... suddenly. — Literally, for on a sudden happened the matter. “On a sudden,” be-pith’om, here only; elsewhere simply pith’om. Comp. the synonymous règa’ and be-règa’ (Psalms 6:10; Job 21:13). The hand of God was seen in the speed with which the revolution was effected, and the sudden turn of the princes and people from indifference to glad alacrity. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 30:12.)