26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 20-34)We have here the gracious copious answer which God gave to Hezekiah’s prayer. The message which he sent him by the same hand ( 2 Kgs. 19:6 , 7 ), one would think, was an answer sufficient to his prayer; but, that he might have strong consolation, he was encouraged by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie , Heb. 6:18. In general, God assured him that his prayer was heard, ...
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