Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
blast—rather, "I will put a spirit (Isaiah 28:6; I Kings 22:23) into him," that is, so influence his judgment that when he hears the report (Isaiah 37:9, concerning Tirhakah), he shall return [GESENIUS]; the "report" also of the destruction of his army at Jerusalem, reaching Sennacherib, while he was in the southwest of Palestine on the borders of Egypt, led him to retreat.
by the sword— (Isaiah 37:38).
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