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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 18:5 - 18:5
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He trusted in the Lord God of Israel - without invoking the aid or purchasing the succor of foreign auxiliaries like Asa (1Ki 15:18, 1Ki 15:19) and Ahaz (2Ki 16:17; Isa 7:1-25).
so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah - Of course David and Solomon are excepted, they having had the sovereignty of the whole country. In the petty kingdom of Judah, Josiah alone had a similar testimony borne to him (2Ki 23:25). But even he was surpassed by Hezekiah, who set about a national reformation at the beginning of his reign, which Josiah did not. The pious character and the excellent course of Hezekiah was prompted, among other secondary influences, by a sense of the calamities his father’s wicked career had brought on the country, as well as by the counsels of Isaiah.