Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 39:4

"Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them." — Isaiah 39:4 (ASV)

What have they seen in thine house?—The question was pressed home.

Had the king contented himself with such hospitality as would have satisfied the demands of the code of Eastern ethics? Or had he, as the prophet rightly suspected, done more than that, in his vain-glorious hope of figuring among the “great powers” of the East?

On the minds of the ambassadors, we may well believe the impression left was like that made on Blucher as he passed through London: that it would be “a grand city to plunder.”