And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
Hezekiah was glad. It was not the mere act, but the spirit of it, which provoked God - 2 Chronicles 32:25, "Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; because his heart was lifted up:" also cf. Isa. 39:31 , "in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon ... God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart." God 'tries' His people at different times by different ways, bringing out 'all that is in their heart,' to show them its varied corruptions Compare David in a similar case, 1 Chronicles 21:1-8.
Showed them the house of his precious things. So the Chaldaic, Arabic, and Syriac. The Hebrew (without 'aleph (')), nªkotow (H5238), from naaka' (H5217), to smite or break, since aromatics are bruised in order to yield their odour. The Hebrew, with 'aleph (') х nªko't (H5219)], is used for spicery in Genesis 37:25. Hence, it came to mean precious things in general (Kimchi). The Vulgate translates here, 'the house of his (aromatic) spices. But as these follow afterward, the English version avoids tautology.
Sil ld Silver ... gold - partly gotten from the Assyrian camp (Isaiah 33:4), partly from presents (2 Chronicles 32:23; 2 Chronicles 32:27-29). This favours the later date of Hezekiah's sickness, rather than the earlier one in Sargon's time.
Precious ointment - used for anointing kings and priests.
Armour - or else vessels in general: the parallel passage, 2 Chronicles 32:27, "treasuries ... for shields," favours the English version-His arsenal.