Judah. — Then, taking courage from the panic which had struck their adversaries, the whole people of Judah — not merely those who had escaped out of the city, but also those outside the walls — fight once more “at Jerusalem,” or in its very streets,” against the terror-driven, plague-stricken, God-confounded foe” (Wright).
And the wealth.... — Oriental armies always march with quantities of gold, silver, and other valuables. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 20:25; and for an instance in India, year of the Hejra 964, see Al Badaoni’s Reign of Akbar, Transl. pp. 9, 10.)