For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Ver. 4. For, lo, the kings were assembled] The princes of the Philistines, 2 Samuel 5:5. Or, Sennacherib's princes, which were all kings, Isaiah 10:8. Oecolampadius, upon Isaiah 13:19, saith, that there were twenty and two kingdoms in Assyria; these all came with combined forces to lay Jerusalem desolate, but could not effect it.
They passed by together] They could do this city (dear to God, and secured by him, the Athenians boasted that they were θεοφιλεις, beloved of God, the Hierosolymitans were surely so) no more harm than as if they had been so many wayfaring men that had passed by it with their staves in their hands.