2 Chron. 32 Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifieth himself, 2 Chron. 32:1–8; and sendeth letters to Isaiah concerning the blasphemies of Sennacherib, 2 Chron. 32:9–20. An angel destroyeth the host of the Assyrians, 2 Chron. 32:21–23. Hezekiah’s sickness and sign of recovery, 2 Chron.

After these things, and the establishment thereof; an emphatical preface, signifying, that notwithstanding all his pious care and zeal for God, yet God saw fit to exercise him with a sore trial and calamity; which yet he turned to his great honour and advantage.

To stop the waters of the fountains, with earth or other things cast into them; and withal to derive the waters by secret paths and pipes under ground to Jerusalem.

Which was a scarce commodity in this country, and the want of it might much annoy the Assyrian army.

The wall that was broken by Joash, 2 Chron. 25:23, and not since repaired. Up to the towers; either, 1. As high as the towers, or the tops of the wall. Or, 2.

Of this and the following verses, See Poole “2 Kings 18:17”, &c. See Poole “2 Kings 19:10”, &c.

Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some of them stronger than you, in spite of all their gods, it is not probable that your God should defend you, which none of the rest could do for their people.

Or, of all those nations which were not very remote from Canaan, and heard these matters.

Of which see a more particular account 2 Kings 20:1.

His heart was lifted up, for that prodigious victory over the Assyrians, above, 2 Chron. 32:21, and for his miraculous restoration from sickness, and the confirmation of that work by a strange and supernatural motion of the sun, and by the honour since done him by an embassy from the great and…

He provided him cities, Heb. he made, &c. Either he purchased them to himself by his gold or silver; or he repaired, and fortified, and beautified them for the honour and safety of his kingdom. But the former sense seems to agree better with the following words.

The upper water-course of Gihon; a rivulet near Jerusalem consisting of two streams, the upper, which was brought into one pool, called the upper pool, Isa. 7:3; and the lower, which was brought into another, called the lower pool, Isa. 22:9.

God left him, to wit, to himself, and his own impotency and corruption. God withdrew from him those supplies and assistances of his Spirit which would certainly and effectually have kept him from that sin, and suffered Satan to tempt him, and him to fall into the sin of pride and ostentation.