16And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. …
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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