2 Chronicles 32:24-3

(cp. 2 Kings 20; Isaiah 38, 39)). Hezekiah's Sickness. The Ambassadors from Babylon. Hezekiah's Death

24. In those days The phrase is taken over from 2 Kings 20:1, and it cannot be determined what date is intended, though we might conclude from 2 Kings 20:6 that it was a time at which the Assyrian danger was not yet past, and that it was about the fourteenth year of Hezekiah (reigned 14 + 15 = 29 years).

he spake The Heb. word means in certain connexions, "to promise," and the idea of "promise" is present here, the sense being "God made him a promise and confirmed it by a wonder"; cp. 2 Kings 20:5-6; 2 Kings 2 Kings 8-11.

a sign Rather, a wonder (R.V. mg.), as in 2 Chronicles 32:31.