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2 Chronicles 32:31 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 32 · verse 31
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.2 Chronicles 32:31 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 32:31 in context
29Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
31Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
32Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ambassadorslûwtsproperly, to make mouths atH3887 →
- Howbeitkênproperly, set uprightH3651 →
- princessara head personH8269 →
- BabylonBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- enquiredârashproperly, to tread or frequentH1875 →
- wondermôwphêtha miracleH4159 →
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Here we conclude the story of Hezekiah with an account of three things concerning him: - I. His sickness and his recovery from it, Ch2 32:24. The account of his sickness is but briefly mentioned here; we had a large narrative of it, 2 Kings 20. His disease seemed likely to be mortal. In the extremity of it he prayed.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-33