Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (II Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes).
II Chronicles 32:10
In the siege - Perhaps "in straitness" (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country.
II Chronicles 32:13
fathers - i. e. "predecessors." Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty that had only furnished one king before himself.
II Chronicles 32:22
Guided them ... - A slight alteration of the existing text gives the sense - "gave them rest round about;" a common expression in Chronicles II Chronicles 15:15; II Chronicles 20:30.
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