In those days] The phrase is taken over from 2 Kings xx. 1, and it cannot be determined what date is intended, though we may conclude from 2 Kings xx. 6 that it was a time at which the Assyrian danger was not yet past, and that it was about the fourteenth year of Hezekiah (compare Barnes on 2 Kings xx. 1).
he spake] The Hebrew word means, in certain connections, “to promise,” and the idea of “promise” is present here, the sense being “God made him a promise and confirmed it by a wonder”; compare 2 Kings xx. 5, 6, 8–11.
a sign] Rather, a wonder (margin), as in verse 31.
²⁵But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
25. his heart was lifted up] Compare verse 31; 2 Kings xx. 12–15.
wrath] Hebrew ḳeṣeph, a visitation of Divine wrath; compare xix. 2, 10, xxiv. 18, xxix. 8.
²⁶Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride[¹] of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
[¹] Hebrew the lifting up.
26. humbled himself] Compare 2 Kings xx. 19.
²⁷And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;