2 Kings 19

2 Kings 19:2

THe Elders] the Italian, the eldest, namely the heads and governors.

2 Kings 19:3

Of trouble] into which the people of God being fallen, the enemies doe take an occasion from thence to blaspheme and despight God: [the children] a proverbiall kinde of speech, to signifie an extreme danger; as when a womans strength faileth her even upon the point of being delivered.

2 Kings 19:4

Will heare] a phrase taken from men, meaning he may have considered of it, and be wrath in his minde for it.

2 Kings 19:7

I will send] I will send a panick terror in his minde, concerning the comming of the King of Ethiopia, and a true and reall terror by the mortality and death of his Camp, that he shall determine to be gone.

2 Kings 19:9

He heard say] see an example like this, 1 Samuel 23:27.

2 Kings 19:16

Sent him] the Italian, sent this, namely the subject of this letter which I hold in my hand.

2 Kings 19:21

The Virgin] the Prophets use to call those cities & states so, which are and ought to be to their Princes in stead of chaste daughters, to be inviolably kept under their lawfull Lords, who ought also to keep themselves pure, in the integrity of their faith and obedience towards them.

2 Kings 19:23

With the multitude] a figurative description of Sennacharibs vaine-glory, who presued that hee could easily subdue all Iudea, which was likened to Lebanon for heigth and magnificence: And to Mount Carmel for pleasantnesse, and fruitfulnesse, see Isaiah 14:8.

2 Kings 19:24

Strange waters] newly found out, which heretofore were not know: or of strange countreys, [dried up] my armies are so great that they can drie up rivers, drinking but once every man, and yet I alwayes am abundantly provided of water from other places: it seemeth he mocketh Hezekiah for the care he took in stopping of the fountaines about Ierusalem, 2 Chronicles 32:3. [Of besieged places] namely of strong holds.

2 Kings 19:25

Hast thou not] hee turneth his speech to Sennacherib in the name of God, shewing him that all which he had done in Iudea, was done by his decree for to chastise his people; so that he, who was but onely the instrument, had nothing to vaunt himself against of God, who could hinder him and overthrow all his undertakings, Isa. 10. 5. 7. 13. 15. [formed it]appointed and decreed it to be so together with all the circumstances, Isaiah 22:11. Ier. 33. 2.

2 Kings 19:27

Thy abode] figurative termes taken from huntsmen, the meaning is, I know all thy councells designes, and undertakings, and I govern them all through my providence, see Psal.139. 2. 3.

2 Kings 19:28

In thy nose] as they doe to bufaloes and other fierce beasts.

2 Kings 19:29

This year] many think that was the sixth year, next before the year of rest, Levit. 25. 5 which year it was not lawfull to sow nor reap, but to feed only upon what the earth did voluntarily bring forth: Now the miracle was, that in the sixth year which was to furnish victuall for the two yeares following, Levit. 25. 21. they could not till the land, by reason of the Assyrians comming, whereby the sixth, seventh, and eighth year, there was nothing eaten but what grew of it selfe.

2 Kings 19:30

Take root] prosper and multiply every way: A pharse taken from trees Iob 29. 19.

2 Kings 19:31

Shall go forth] after this siege the Countrey shall be re-inhabited and peopled by them that shall have escaped in Ierusalem: [the zeale] God shall work all this to maintaine his glory, and his Church against the Assyrians fiercenesse and blasphemies.

2 Kings 19:32

Cast a banke] or Terrace, see 2 Samuel 20:15.

2 Kings 19:37

Of Armenia] the Italian, Ararat, which is in the great Armenia, Genesis 8:4.