However. —Literally, And thus; that is, when things were so prosperous for him. In the midst of Hezekiah’s prosperity, Go…

Howbeit, [in the business of] the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire th…

God left Hezekiah to himself, so that by this trial and his weakness in it, what was in his heart might be known: that he was not as perfect in gra…