¹⁹And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
19. the God of Jerusalem] For this designation compare Psalms cxxxv. 21.
20–23 (compare 2 Kings xix. 1–4, 14–19, 35–37).
Hezekiah and Isaiah pray. The Deliverance.
This section is a very brief summary of 2 Kings xix.
²⁰And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
20. And Hezekiah ... and Isaiah ... prayed] According to Kings, Hezekiah prayed, and was answered by God through the medium of a message delivered by Isaiah the prophet (2 Kings xix. 20–34).
heaven] Here used reverently for “God”; compare xxviii. 9; Daniel iv. 26; Luke xv. 21.
²¹And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him[¹] there with the sword.
[¹] Hebrew caused him to fall.
21. all the mighty men] In number 185,000 according to 2 Kings xix. 35 and Isaiah xxxvii. 36. The agency was probably the plague, which is pictured as a destroying angel in 2 Samuel xxiv. 16.