Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
in the business of the ambassadors who sent . . . to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, etc.—They brought a present (II Chronicles 32:23; see on II Kings 20:12-13), and a letter of congratulation on his recovery, in which particular enquiries were made about the miracle of the sun's retrocession—a natural phenomenon that could not fail to excite great interest and curiosity at Babylon, where astronomy was so much studied. At the same time, there is reason to believe that they proposed a defensive league against the Assyrians.
God left him, to try him, etc.—Hezekiah's offense was not so much in the display of his military stores and treasures, as in not giving to God the glory both of the miracle and of his recovery, and thus leading those heathen ambassadors to know Him.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Chronicles 32:31:
2 Kings 20:13-14
2 Chronicles 32:27-29
Isaiah 38:8
Isaiah 39:1
Isaiah 39:2
Daniel 2:30
Daniel 11:35
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