The wrath ... was (i.e., fell) upon Judah. — The phrase of 2 Chronicles 24:18. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 19:10.)

Delivered them to trouble ... — Rather, made them a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing. The language is Deuteronomic. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:37 : “Thou shalt become a horror... an astonishment.” Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 25:18 : I will make them an astonishment and a hissing,” et al.)

As ye see with your (own) eyes. — For ye behold the disastrous results of the invasions of Aram and Israel, of Edom and the Philistines, and of the appeal to Assyria (2 Chronicles 28).

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