But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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Barnes' Notes
The destruction of numerous shrines and altars where Yahweh had been worshipped 2Ki 18:4 seemed to the Rab-shakeh conduct calculated not to secure the favor, but to call forth the anger, of the god.…
Adam Clarke
Whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away - This was artfully malicious. Many of the people sacrificed to Jehovah on the high places; Hezekiah had removed them, (Kg2 18:4), because…
Here is, I. Jerusalem besieged by Sennacherib's army, Kg2 18:17. He sent three of his great generals with a great host against Jerusalem. Is this the great king, the king of Assyria? No, never call…
Cambridge Bible
We trust in the Lord our God Probably Rab-shakeh knew something about the character of Egypt and her ability and likeliness to help. -Rahab that sitteth still" (Isa 30:7 R.V.) was a name probably not…
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