And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
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Barnes' Notes
Hezekiah received the letter - The inscriptions show that scribes accompanied the Assyrian armies, with the materials of their craft, so that such a dispatch might be easily drawn up. As Hezekiah…
Adam Clarke
Spread it before the Lord - The temple was considered to be God's dwelling-place; and that whatever was there was peculiarly under his eye. Hezekiah spread the letter before the Lord, as he wished him…
Rabshakeh, having delivered his message and received no answer (whether he took this silence for a consent or a slight does not appear), left his army before Jerusalem, under the command of the other…
Cambridge Bible
Hezekiah spreads the letter before the Lord, and prays for deliverance (2Ch 32:20; Isa 37:14-20)
14. Hezekiah received the letter Though bringing a written document the messengers of Sennacherib may…
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