For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
Ver. 8. For he saith.] Sennacherib saith. See Isaiah 36:9; Isaiah 36:15; Isaiah 36:18; Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 37:10; Isaiah 37:13; Isaiah 37:24,25. A great part of this whole book of Isaiah concerneth Sennacherib.
Are not my princes altogether kings?] Behold a right Pyrgopolynices, a whenas he was set to work by God, exalting himself both against God and man. And saith not the Pope the same when he claims to be Dominus feudi? lord paramount in spirituals and temporals; and when, in creating his cardinals, he useth these words, Estote confratres nostri, et principes mundi, Be ye fellow brethren to us and princes of the world? The Assyrian styled himself king of kings, and accounted his commanders equals to Hezekiah. Isa 36:9 So Cardinal Bellarmine held himself King James's mate.
a Perhaps he had made some of his chief commanders kings. Our Henry VI crowned Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, King of the Isle of Wight.