2 Chronicles 32:6

Be strong and courageous,.... Be of good heart and spirit, and quit yourselves like men:

be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; which was…

The street of the gate ... - Or, “the square at the gate” (compare 2Ch 29:4 note). The gate intended is probably that of Ephraim 2Ch 25:23 - the great northern gate, opposite the “Camp of the…

Set captains of war over the people - in the street of the gate of the city - That is, the open places at the gate of the city, whither the people came for judgment, etc.

Here is, I. The formidable design of Sennacherib against Hezekiah's kingdom, and the vigorous attempt he made upon it. This Sennacherib was now, as Nebuchadnezzar was afterwards, the terror and…

in the street of the gate R.V. in the broad place at the gate; cp. 2Ch 29:4; Neh 8:16. There is nothing here to shew which of the two broad places mentioned in Nehemiah is meant, or whether some third…