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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 18:5

After him was none like him - The same is said of Josiah (marginal reference). The phrase was probably proverbial, and was not taken to mean more than we mean when we say that such and such a king was one of singular piety.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 18:5. _HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD_] See the character of this good king: 1. _He trusted in the Lord God of Israel_; 2. He _clave to the_ _Lord_; 3. He was steady in his religion; he _depa...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    IV. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH AND AMON 1. Hezekiah and Sennacherib's Invasion CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Hezekiah, King of Judah (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 2 Chron. 29-32)_ 2. The Revival (2 Kings 18:4) 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 KINGS 18-20. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH. These three Chapter s give an account of the reign of the best king of Judah, and a parallel but somewhat less full account is found in Isaiah 36-39. There is ano...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TRUSTED. confided. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. NONE LIKE HIM: i.e. for trust in Jehovah. Same praise given of Josiah (2 Kings 23:25), but in. different respect....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord God_[R.V. THE GOD] _of Israel_ The usual change. _after him was none like him … nor_any [R.V. AMONG THEM] _that were before him_ The comparison is with individual kings. The plural expressi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AFTER HIM WAS NONE LIKE HIM, &C.— This same commendation is given to Josiah, chap. Exodus 23:25 so that it must relate to some particular virtue wherein Hezekiah stood distinguished from the rest of t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH 18:1-12 TRANSLATION (1) And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah be...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; SO THAT AFTER HIM WAS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE KINGS OF JUDAH, NOR ANY THAT WERE BEFORE HIM._ He trusted in the Lord God of Israel - without invoking the aid...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB This chapter describes the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, his religious reforms, and the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who sent one of his officers to deman...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NONE LIKE HIM] The same praise is given to Josiah (2 Kings 23:25)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 HEZEKIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Hezekiah, Ahaz’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. He did so in the 3rd y...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE TRUSTED... ISRAEL. — _In Jehovah, the God of Israel he trusted._ Hezekiah is thus contrasted with idolatrous kings, such as those who trusted in the Nehushtan. AFTER HIM WAS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בַּ יהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בָּטָ֑ח וְ א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    HEZEKIAH B.C. 715-686 2 Kings 18:1 "For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his visi...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A RESOLUTE RELIGIOUS REFORMER 2 Kings 18:1 It is wonderful that such a man as Ahaz should have had so good a son, but it is likely that Hezekiah had a good mother. See 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now begin the third section of this Book, which includes the story of the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah, with a period of reaction and sin between the two. It is remarkable that such a man as Hezek...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Like him. Ezechias was remarkable for many excellent qualities. Yet we must not push these comparisons too far, contrary to the intention of the sacred writers. The same eulogium is given to Josias,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Reader should carefully keep in view, in order to have a clear apprehension of those historical parts of the Bible, that the history of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah, is so incorporated in on...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but for a season, and a season protracted long, even unto this day. There has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jeh...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HEZEKIAH’S REFORMS_ ‘He removed the high places.’ 2 Kings 18:4 It is a mark of Hezekiah’s breadth of mind that he sought to unite the kingdoms in their worship. We read in Chronicles of his attemp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 brings us to a rather different subject, namely, the relations of Judah with the Assyrian, who had become their oppressor through their...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,.... To be his protector and defender, and had no dependence on idols as an arm of flesh; the Targum is, he trusted in the Word of the Lord God; not in Nehushtan,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him. Ver. 5. _He trusted in the Lord God of Israel_] His confidence...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He trusted in the Lord God of Israel_ In abolishing idolatry, there was danger, as has been intimated, of disobliging his subjects, and provoking them to rebel; but he trusted in the Lord to bear him...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Hezekiah his good reigne. 4 He destroyeth idolatrie, and prospereth. 9 Samaria is caried captiue for their sins. 13 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, is pacified by a tribute. 17 Rabshakeh sent by Sen...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. He was distinguished by a most unusual amount of confidence and fi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    HEZEKIAH KING OVER JUDAH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH IN JUDAH (vv.1-16) In Judah the reign of Hezekiah provided a refreshing relief to the tendency of departure from God. It was during his reign that Assyria took Samaria into cap...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Hezekiah was a true son of David. Some others did that which was right, but not like David. Let us not suppose that when times and men are bad, they must needs grow worse and worse; that does not...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, without calling in foreign and heathenish succours to stablish or help him; which his father Ahaz did, 2 KINGS 16:7 ISA 7; and before him Asa, 1 KINGS 15:18,19, w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 18:5 trusted H982 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel H3478 after H310 kings H4428 Judah H3063 before...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUMMARY OF HEZEKIAH'S REIGN (2 KINGS 18:4). The activities and accomplishments of Hezekiah are now summarised, and his continuing faithfulness to YHWH and consequent success come out in this summary....

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Reign and revival of Hezekiah over Judah. Victory over Phillistines. Invasion of Sennacherib. Insolence of Rab-shekeh. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Eliakim,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 18:4. _Nehushtan;_ that is, _their brass,_ or mere brass, or _parvum æs,_ corrupted brass, by way of contempt. In the Chronicum of Alexander, cited by Eusebius out of Anestasio Niceno, we are...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He trusted in the Lord God of Israel._ THREE STAGES IN THE DEVOUT LIFE This is the writer’s summing up of the character of Hezekiah, before he enters on the details of his reign. It is a lofty and u...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord._ GOODNESS AND PROSPERITY It is impossible to read these words without some surprise. First of all, we are surprised at the fact of a good ki...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea._ A STRIKING REFORMATION, A RUTHLESS DESPOTISM, AND AN UNPRINCIPLED DIPLOMACY I. A striking reformation (2 Kings 18:3). 1. The perverting tendency of...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:1 Hezekiah. In 715 B.C., seven years after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, Hezekiah comes to the throne in Judah. He resembles David more closely than any other...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:5 HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD. Hezekiah’s trust was unparalleled in Judean history (THERE WAS NONE LIKE HIM). This could be seen in the way he...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH THE GOOD CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 18:1. HEZEKIAH THE SON OF AHAZ BEGAN TO REIGN—See Note on chap. 2 Kings 16:2 as to the age of Ahaz. 2 Kings 18:4. He removed t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 18-25 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE ACCESSION

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter eighteen we now move back to the southern kingdom of Judah. Inasmuch as the northern kingdom has now been destroyed from the rest of the... from the rest of Second Kings on we'll be dealing...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 16:7; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Chronicles 20:35;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Trusted — Without calling in foreign succours to establish or help him; which his father Ahaz did; and before him Asa. Before him — Of the kings of Judah only; for David and Solomon were kings of all...

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