Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
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Gill's Exposition
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine, and by thirst,.... Suggesting that would be their case if they did not surrender:
saying, the Lord our God shall deliver us…
The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2Ki 18:17-19; where see the notes). 2Ch 32:10 In the siege - Perhaps “in straitness”…
Adam Clarke
Thus saith Sennacherib - See all these circumstances largely explained 2 Kings 18:17-36 (note).
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 Kings 18…
Cambridge Bible
abide in the siege R.V. abide the siege.
in Jerusalem Isaiah promised deliverance in Jerusalem; e.g. in Isa 29:8; Isa 30:19.