Lo, thou trustest - It is possible that Sennacherib might have been informed of the attempt which had been made by the Jews to secu…

I have counsel and strength for war ... — Reports of Hezekiah’s speech, probably also of his negotiations with Egypt, had…

Behold, you have trusted in that broken staff of reed. This is probably separate from the former verse. For, having formerly said that the…

Lo, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt , &c.] His ally and auxiliary; and which is rightly called "the …

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   And it came to pa in the fourteenth year. Here the author recounts, as a historical account, the destruction of the A y…