CONTENTS
In this chapter we arrive in point of history to the close of Hezekiah's life and reign. He meets with a sharp trial in the approach of the Assyrian army. His sickness and death. Manasseh his son succeeds him in the throne.
We have the history of this war so much more fully related in 2 Kings 18:1 and 2 Kings 19:1, that I shall have only to notice some few points not mentioned there, and then refer the Reader wholly to that account both in the sacred text and in the commentary. There is a great beauty in the opening of this chapter, concerning the exercise of the minds of Hezekiah and his people by this Assyrian. After these things and the establishment thereof; that is, after Hezekiah had thus cleansed the sanctuary and the land of idolatry. In the first view of things one might have thought, that now he and his people would have sat down under the blessing of the Lord, and all would be peace and happiness. Reader! do not fail to mark from it that God's people must be an exercised people. Our Lord's motto, which all his soldiers should wear in their banner is, In the world ye shall have tribulation. In me ye shall have peace. John 16:33.