Isaiah 37:14
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;
the temple, the outward court of it, further than that he could not
go:
and spread it before the Lord;
not to read it, as he had done, or to acquaint him with the
contents of it, which he fully knew; but, as it chiefly regarded
him, and affected his honour and glory, he laid it before him, that
he might take notice of it, and vindicate himself, and avenge his
own cause; he brought it as a proof of what he had to say to him in
prayer, and to support him in his allegations, and as a means to
quicken himself in the discharge of that duty.