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God's Purpose in Testing
Commentators explain that when God "left" Hezekiah, it was not for God to learn something new, as He is all-knowing. Rather, it was a test designed to reveal the pride hidden in Hezekiah's own heart. This trial served to make manifest, both to Hezekiah and to others, the true state of his character when left to his own devices.
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2 Chronicles
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Charles Ellicott
On 2 Chronicles 32:31
19th Century
Bishop
However. —Literally, And thus; that is, when things were so prosperous for him. In the midst of Hezekiah’s prosperity, Go…
John Gill
On 2 Chronicles 32:31
17th Century
Pastor
Howbeit, [in the business of] the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire th…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Chronicles 32:24–33
17th Century
Minister
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…