2 Re 19:1

1 Quando il re Ezechia ebbe udite queste cose, si stracciò le vesti, si coprì d’un sacco, ed entrò nella casa dell’Eterno.

2 Re 19:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:1

And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it
The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter,

that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth;
rent his clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth, in token of mourning, for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple, to pray unto him. The message he sent to Isaiah, with his answer, and the threatening letter of the king of Assyria, Hezekiah's prayer upon it, and the encouraging answer he had from the Lord, with the account of the destruction of the Assyrian army, and the death of Sennacherib, are the same "verbatim" as in ( Isaiah 37:1 ) throughout; and therefore the reader is referred thither for the exposition of them; only would add what Rauwolff ^F20 observes, that still to this day (1575) there are two great holes to be seen, wherein they flung the dead bodies (of the Assyrian army), one whereof is close by the road towards Bethlehem, the other towards the right hand against old Bethel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Travels, par. 3. ch. 22. p. 317.

2 Re 19:1 In-Context

1 Quando il re Ezechia ebbe udite queste cose, si stracciò le vesti, si coprì d’un sacco, ed entrò nella casa dell’Eterno.

2 E mandò Eliakim, prefetto del palazzo, Scebna il segretario, e i più vecchi tra i sacerdoti, coperti di sacchi, dal profeta Isaia, figliuolo di Amots.

3 Essi gli dissero: "Così parla Ezechia: Questo è giorno d’angoscia, di castigo, d’obbrobrio; poiché i figliuoli stan per uscire dal seno materno, ma la forza manca per partorirli.

4 Forse l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ha udite tutte le parole di Rabshaké, che il re d’Assiria, suo signore, ha mandato ad oltraggiare l’Iddio vivente; e, forse, l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, punirà le parole che ha udite. Rivolgigli dunque una preghiera a pro del resto del popolo che sussiste ancora!"

5 I servi del re Ezechia si recaron dunque da Isaia.