Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Wrath ... came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. For even the sincere repentance of the servants of God, after great transgressions, has not prevented, although it has sometimes delayed, the judicial visitation (cf. 1 Samuel 3:14; 2 Samuel 12:10-14) (see Jamieson's 'Sacred History,' 2:, 118).