2 Kings 20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments
  • Introduction open_in_new

    Hezekiah, receiving a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthened. The sun goeth ten degrees backward for a sign. Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah.*

    Before Christ 714.

    * See the Annotations and Reflections on ch. 37. of Isaiah.

  • 2 Kings 20:21 open_in_new

    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers— See on 2 Chronicles 32:30. In the innermost and chief room of the royal sepulchre of the house of David was the body of Hezekiah, placed in a niche, which was at the upper end of the room, and, very likely, cut at that time on purpose to do him the greater honour. The prophets who are supposed to have been living in his son's and his reign, were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, some say Obadiah, and Isaiah, the greatest of them all.