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After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself. See also: 2 Kings 18:13-37Isaiah 7:17-18Isaiah 10:5-11When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem, See also: 2 Kings 12:17Luke 9:53Luke 9:51he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him. See also: Proverbs 20:18Proverbs 15:22Proverbs 24:6Then many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?” See also: 2 Chronicles 32:302 Chronicles 32:11 Kings 19:21He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance. See also: 2 Chronicles 25:231 Kings 9:242 Samuel 5:9He set captains of war over the people, gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying, See also: 2 Chronicles 30:22Isaiah 40:2Nehemiah 8:16“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. See also: 2 Kings 6:16Romans 8:31Ephesians 6:10An arm of flesh is with him, but the LORD our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. See also: Jeremiah 17:52 Chronicles 20:172 Timothy 4:17After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his forces were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, See also: 2 Kings 18:17Joshua 10:31Joshua 12:11Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem? See also: Isaiah 36:42 Kings 18:19Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria’? See also: 2 Chronicles 32:15Psalms 3:2Psalms 42:10Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it’? See also: 2 Chronicles 31:1Deuteronomy 12:13-142 Chronicles 4:1Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? See also: 2 Kings 18:33-351 Corinthians 8:42 Kings 15:29Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? See also: Isaiah 42:8Exodus 15:9-11Exodus 14:3Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?” See also: Daniel 3:15Exodus 5:2Isaiah 36:18His servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. See also: Psalms 73:9John 15:21Job 15:25-26He also wrote letters insulting the LORD, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.” See also: Isaiah 37:28-29Isaiah 37:142 Kings 19:12They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city. See also: Isaiah 36:132 Kings 18:26-281 Samuel 17:10They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands. See also: 2 Kings 19:18Isaiah 2:8Psalms 10:13-14Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. See also: Psalms 91:14-152 Kings 19:2-42 Chronicles 14:11The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword. See also: Isaiah 37:36-38Psalms 76:5Psalms 76:7Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. See also: Isaiah 31:4-5Psalms 18:48-50John 16:13Many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on. See also: 2 Chronicles 17:52 Chronicles 1:1Matthew 2:11In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to the LORD; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. See also: Isaiah 38:1-82 Kings 20:1-11Isaiah 38:21-22But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:182 Chronicles 26:162 Chronicles 32:31However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the LORD’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah. See also: Jeremiah 26:18-192 Chronicles 33:122 Chronicles 34:27-28Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; See also: 2 Chronicles 9:271 Chronicles 27:25-312 Chronicles 17:5also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. See also: 1 Kings 4:262 Samuel 7:82 Chronicles 26:10Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions. See also: 1 Chronicles 29:122 Chronicles 26:10Deuteronomy 8:18This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works. See also: 1 Kings 1:33Isaiah 22:9-111 Kings 1:45However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart. See also: Deuteronomy 8:2Proverbs 17:3John 15:5Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. See also: 2 Kings 18:1-20Isaiah 36:1-222 Chronicles 31:20-21Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place. See also: Proverbs 10:71 Kings 2:101 Kings 11:43
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 32:1
Ver. 1. Truth, and sincere piety of the king, God was pleased to put him to trial; (T. M. D.) or,
"after these things were established." Jun. --- Sennacherib attacked Juda when Ezechias had been fifteen years on the throne, and till that time had paid the stipulated tribute. 4 K. xviii. 13. C. ---
He now probably refused to pay it any longer. Salien, A. 3319. M.
↑ 12 Chronicles 32:2
Ver. 2. Jerusalem; as many cities had fallen. The king entered into an agreement with the Assyrians, who soon broke it.
↑ 22 Chronicles 32:3
Ver. 3. City. The torrent Cedron afforded the only good supply of water. It was often dry, and was only three steps across, when full of melted snow or rain.
The waters of Siloe and Gihon were collected in it. Yet it was no difficult enterprise for the king to turn the stream, and introduce the waters through the rock into a large reservoir, in the city, by the canal, which is mentioned 2
Esdras ii. 14. Eccli. xlviii. 19. The besieged were more frequently deprived of water. Judith vii. 6. Babylon was taken by Semiramis, Cyrus, and Alexander, after they turned aside the waters of the Euphrates; and Cæsar obliged the town of Cahors to surrender, by intercepting the springs. Frontin. iii. 7. C.
↑ 32 Chronicles 32:4
Ver. 4. Land, Cedron, on the east; (C. M.) or it may be the Gihon, which supplies Siloe, v. 30. T.
↑ 42 Chronicles 32:5
Ver. 5. Without, of less strength. --- Mello, the palace, which was strongly situated, and Ezechias added fresh fortifications. 2 K. v. 9. --- Arms. Heb.
"darts."
↑ 52 Chronicles 32:6
Ver. 6. Gate, where there was a room for assemblies. 2 K. xviii. 24. C. --- Heart, in the most affectionate and pathetic manner. H.
↑ 62 Chronicles 32:7
Ver. 7. More: God and his angels, from whom he expected relief, and was not disappointed. 4 K.
vi. 16. and xix. 35. C.
↑ 72 Chronicles 32:9
Ver. 9. Lachis, whence he sent Rabsaces. Other blasphemous letters were dispatched from Lobna, (v. 17) when Sennacherib was forced to go to meet Tharaca. 4 K. xix. 9.
↑ 92 Chronicles 32:12
Ver. 12. His altars. Rabsaces was ignorant of the law, and upbraids the king for a commendable action. C. --- Thus our adversaries foolishly blame us for keeping holy days and abstinence. H.
↑ 122 Chronicles 32:17
Ver. 17. He (Sennacherib) wrote, when he was going towards Egypt. Both master and servant employed the same fallacious argument; as if the true God and idols were all upon a level, and as if past success were a sure proof of future victories, v. 19. H.
↑ 172 Chronicles 32:21
Ver. 21. Army. Heb. "camp." --- Disgrace. The Jews pretend that he was deprived of his beard and hair, (S. Jer. Trad.) misapplying the text of Isai. vii.
20. C. --- Sword, to prevent their being offered as victims, to appease the idol and the people. R. Solomon. Lyran. --- This happened some months after the king's return to Ninive, when he had cruelly oppressed the captive Jews and Tobias, i. 24. T.
↑ 212 Chronicles 32:23
Ver. 23. Many; probably strangers. 3 K. viii. 41.
↑ 232 Chronicles 32:24
Ver. 24. Sign. See 4 K. xx.
↑ 242 Chronicles 32:25
Ver. 25. Up, by riches, and the splendid embassy from Babylon. C. ---
Prosperity is more dangerous than adversity. W. --- Few are able to bear good fortune with moderation. H.
↑ 252 Chronicles 32:27
Ver. 27. Arms. Heb. "shields." Sept. "arsenals."
↑ 272 Chronicles 32:30
Ver. 30. Underneath the walls of the city, making them run westward. C. xxxiii.
14.
↑ 302 Chronicles 32:31
Ver. 31. Wonder, at the defeat of Sennacherib; (Grot. D.) or rather the retrogradation of the sun, as the Chaldees studied astronomy with diligence.
M. T. C. --- Left him, in punishment of his vanity. H. --- Heart. How feeble is man when destitute of the divine assistance! M. --- God permitted, therefore, the king to be tempted, (C.) that he might know himself, and that others might have a true idea of him. D.
↑ 312 Chronicles 32:33
Ver. 33. Above, for distinction's sake: (C.) meriti prærogativâ. S. Jer. Trad. M. ---
The cell was either higher than the rest, or a sort of pyramid was erected over the tomb of Ezechias. C.
↑ 33License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses