Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
What said these men ... whence name they? - implying that any proposition coming from the idolatrous enemies of God, with whom Israel was forbidden to form alliance, should have been received with anything but gladness. Reliance on Babylon, rather than on God, was a similar sin to the previous reliance on Egypt, (Isaiah 30:1-33 and Isaiah 31:1-9.)
They are come from a far country - implying that he had done nothing more than was proper in showing attention to strangers "from a far country."