2 Crônicas 32

2 Crônicas 32

Meyer - 2 Chronicles 32:20 Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah, prayed and cried to heaven. It was the indignity done to Jehovah that stirred these two holy men to the heart. Not that their lives, and the lives of their people, and the beautiful holy city, were in danger; but that Sennacherib spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. Oh that we were possessed with a similar zeal for God, so that we’ might look at sin as it affects Him, and lament over the awful wrongs which are continually being perpetrated against His holy, loving nature! What an argument this would give us in prayer! This constitutes a special reason why we should plead for a revival of religion throughout our land. Men speak and act so shamelessly, as though God had abdicated His throne, and was hardly to be taken account of. They sin against Him with so high a hand, and treat His laws with so much contumely. Are there no Hezekiahs and Isaiahs who will pray and cry to the God of our fathers to do again the great works He did in their days, and in the old time before? Then the Lord would save us, and guide us on every side (2 Chronicles 32:22). There never was a more conspicuous and glorious deliverance than when the angel of God wrought for Israel against Assyria. The Lord became a place of broad rivers and streams across which the enemy could not pass. As the mother bird settling down on her nest, He covered the city with His outspread wings. And the rich spoils of the foe were left for the beleagured garrison. Pray on, beloved; the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us. 2 Chronicles 32:21 And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword. the Lord: 2Ki 19:20,35-37 Isa 10:16-18 37:21,36,37 42:8 angel: 2Sa 24:16 Ps 18:50 Da 3:28 6:22 Mt 13:49,50 Ac 12:23 cut off all: Job 9:4 Ps 76:5,7,12 the leaders: Isa 10:8,16-19,33,34 17:12-14 29:5-8 30:30-33 33:10-12 36:9 Rev 6:15,16 19:17,18 with shame: Ps 132:18 Pr 11:2 16:18 he was come: 2Ki 19:36,37 Isa 37:37,38 slew him: Heb. made him fall Related Passages: 2 Kings 19:7 “Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’” 2 Kings 19:35 Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh. 37 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead. HOW TO HAVE A BAD NIGHT! 2 Kings 19:35 Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword. - There is disagreement as to whether this was the angel of the LORD or simply "an" angel from the LORD sent to destroy the Assyrians. John MacArthur includes 2Ki 19:35 and 2Ch 32:21 in his list of appearances of THE Angel of the LORD in the OT (Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth) and I also favor this as an OT Christophany. We will have to wait until Heaven to find out for sure!