2 Kings 18

2 Kings 18:2

TWenty and five] seeing Ahaz began to reigne at the age of twenty years, and reigned sixteen years 2 Kings, 6. 2. he must beget Ezechiah at eleven yeares of age, which must not seeme strange, considering the singular blessing that nation had for generation. So Reboam was begotten by Solomon about the same age, 1 Kings 14:21.

2 Kings 18:4

Did burne] by an arbitrary superstition, as unto a signe of Gods grace, yet being not commanded by him to doe it, which command ought to be the rule and scope of all true divine service That having been kept but only for a memoriall: [Nehushtan] a peece of brasse, to shew that it was to be valued no more then so much of such stuffe, there remaining none of the ancient vertue in it, and to annihilate by this name of scorne the false honour which was yeelded to it.

2 Kings 18:5

Like him] in perfectly purging the service of God from all Idolatry and superstition.

2 Kings 18:7

He rebelled] in a just zeale for Gods government, he being the only soveraign Lord of his people, and in detestation of his Fathers wicked covenant.

2 Kings 18:8

From the tower.] the Italian, towers, taking and sacking all their towers, as well the strong as the weak ones, 2 King. 17. 9.

2 Kings 18:14

To Lachish] a city of Juda to besiedge which Sennacherib did stay: [I have offended] in having rebelled against thee.

2 Kings 18:16

Had overlaid] restoring them into their former state, 2 Chronicles 29:3. in which Solomon had made them, namely, covered with golden plates, 1 Kings 6:32. which Ahaz had taken away, beside all other dammages which he had done to the Church.

2 Kings 18:17

Sent] breaking the covenants, when he had received the money, for he would now have King Hezekiah to yeeld himselfe wholly to him, and to deliver Ierusalem into his hands:[Rsaris] this name as well as Rabshakeh, are names of offices: The first signifieth chiefe of the Eunuches, the other chiefe of the Cupbearers, see upon Ier. 39. 3.

2 Kings 18:20

I have councell] that one needeth nothing, neither for councell nor strength, which are the two necessary meanes to make warre with, but only to pray to God: Or, that these humane meanes are of themselves vaine and unprofitable.

2 Kings 18:21

Will goe into] he is not onely unprofitable, but also very harmfull.

2 Kings 18:22

Whose high places] whose service thou hast lessened and put down according to the sence of Idolaters, that doe think pietie consists in the endlesse multiplication of their superstitions.

2 Kings 18:25

The Lord said] a foolish imagination of Sennacherib or Rabshakeh for to afright the people, which imagination they had conceived either by reason of their pretended offence towards God, vers. 22. or by reason of the prosperous successe they had in conquering the rest of the Countrey.

2 Kings 18:27

They may eat] as much as to say, that hee would keep them shut up, and make them endure all the extreamest wants of a siedge.

2 Kings 18:31

Make an agreement] Heb a blessing, that is to say, a friendly agreement.