Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
Ver. 2. Then he turned his face to the wall.] Not so much out of fear of death, - though nature at death will have a bout with the best; and to die actively is not every man's happiness; quis enim vult mori? prorsus nemo, saith one; death in itself is nature's slaughter-man, hell's harbinger, &c., - a nor at all because he was uncertain whither he should go when he died, as Jerome would have it: but Isaiah's message of death was so harsh and heavy to him, because he had then died without issue, as appeareth in that Manasseh was but twelve years old at his father's death.
a φοβερωτατον ο θανατος, περας γαρ. - Arist., Ethic., lib. iii. cap. 6.