Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Hezekiah hearkened unto them - Instead of vaiyishma , he hearkened, vaiyismach , he rejoiced or was glad, is the reading of twelve of Kennicott' s and De Rossi' s MSS., the parallel place, Isaiah 39:2, the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Arabic, some copies of the Targum, and the Babylonian Talmud.
All the house of his precious things - Interpreters are not well agreed about the meaning of the original nechothoh , which we here translate precious things, and in the margin spicery or jewels. I suppose the last to be meant.
There was nothing in his house - He showed them through a spirit of folly and exultation, all his treasures, and no doubt those in the house of the Lord. And it is said, II Chronicles 32:31, that in this business God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart; and this trial proved that in his heart there was little else than pride and folly.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 2 Kings 20:13:
2 Chronicles 32:31
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