Isa. 36 Sennacherib invadeth Judah, Isa. 36:1. He sendeth Rabshakeh, who by his blasphemous persuasions tempteth Hezekiah to despair, and the people to revolt, Isa. 36:2–22.

The history related here, and in the three following chapters, is, for the substance of it, and almost wholly in the same words, contained 2 Kings 18—20. It is fitly inserted here, to explain and confirm some of the foregoing predictions.