2 Kings 19:15

And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord The Chronicler says -Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven".

O Lord God[R.V. the God] of Israel, which dwellestbetween the cherubims R.V. which sittest upon the cherubim. On the cherubim and their position above the ark, as the place where the divine presence was manifested and dwelt, see note on 1 Kings 6:23.

thouart the God,even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth Sennacherib's letter had spoken of -the gods of the nations". Hezekiah contrasts his own faith in Jehovah with the false opinions of the heathen whose lands Sennacherib had overrun, and hence shews at once that he hopes that the fate of himself and his people will also be a contrast to theirs. In the next clause also he shews that the maker of all things must be the disposer of them all.