14Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? …
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. …
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-23)This story of the rage and blasphemy of Sennacherib, Hezekiah’s prayer, and the deliverance of Jerusalem by the destruction of the Assyrian army, we had more at large in the book of Kings, 2 Kgs. 18:1-19:37 It is contracted here, yet large enough to show these three things:— I. The impiety and malice of the church’s enemies. Sennacherib has his hands full in besieging Lachish (2 Chron. 32:9), but…
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