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Barnes' Notes
He turned his face to the wall - Contrast 1Ki 21:4. Ahab turned in sullenness, because he was too angry to converse; Hezekiah in devotion, because he wished to pray undisturbed.
The historian, having shown us blaspheming Sennacherib destroyed in the midst of the prospects of life, here shows us praying Hezekiah delivered in the midst of the prospects of death - the days of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Then he turned his face to the wall He was in deep sorrow, and would pray without being observed. Ahab did the like, but it was in childish petulance (1Ki 21:4). If Manasseh was the eldest son of…