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2Ki 19:1-5. Hezekiah in deep affliction.
when king Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes - The rending of his clothes was a mode of expressing horror at the daring blasphemy - the assumption of sackcloth a sign of his mental distress - his entrance into the temple to pray the refuge of a pious man in affliction - and the forwarding an account of the Assyrian’s speech to Isaiah was to obtain the prophet’s counsel and comfort. The expression in which the message was conveyed described, by a strong figure, the desperate condition of the kingdom, together with their own inability to help themselves; and it intimated also a hope, that the blasphemous defiance of Jehovah’s power by the impious Assyrian might lead to some direct interposition for the vindication of His honor and supremacy to all heathen gods.