
Why Did People Wear Sackcloth and Ashes When They Grieved?
Heather Riggleman
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it
Or books F11, in which the above things were written; and everyone of these he read, as Kimchi interprets it; though the Targum is,
``he took the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read one of them;''that is, as Kimchi's father explains it, in which was the blasphemy against God; this he read over carefully to himself, observed the contents of it, and then did with it as follows: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of God;