z 1. e.: Granted their deſires of a League and Amity with them, a For though his Countrey had lately been harafled by the Aſrians, yet he had reſerved all his Treaſures and precious things, which he and his Fathers had gathered in Jeruſalem. Beſides, he had conſi- derable Spoils out of the 4ſj71an Camp. Alſo he had many preſents ſent to him, 2 Chr. 32.23« which doubtleſs were things of conſider- able Worth. 6 Which hedid through vain Oftentation and pride of heart, 2 Chron: 32. 25, 26. being liftedupby the great Honour which | God had done him, in working ſuch glorious Miracles for his ſake, and by the great Reſpe&ts & Preſents rendred to him from divers Princes and People, and now by this great Babylonian Monarch. Sao hard amatter is it even for a good man to be high and humble.
14 C Then came Ifaiah the prophet unto king Heze- kiah, and ſaid unto him, What ſaid theſe men, and from whence came they unto thee ? And Hezekiah ſaid, They are come from a far countrey c, even from Ba- bylon 4. c A vain-glorious Expreſſion, 1ntimating the great Honour which he had from all parts both far and near. 4 That great and porent Monarchy ; which he ſpeaks to magnifie his own Honour and Happineſs. i5 Andhe ſaid, What have they ſeen in thine houſe e? and Hezekiah anſwered, All the things that are in mine houſe have they ſeen : there is nothing among my treaſure that I have not ſhewed them, e He asketh, not that he was ignorant of it, but that from his An« {wer he might take the occaſion of delivering Gods meflage to him. 16 And [{aiah ſaid unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that in thine houſe, and that which thy fathers have laid up in ſtore unto this day, * thall be carried into Babylon f : no- * Chip, ching ſhall be lefc, ſaith the LORD. *9- 3h f This Judgmentis denounced againſt him for his pride, which 25 7. God exceedingly abhors ; and for his Ingratitude, whereby he took ts th that Honour to himſelf which he ſhould have given intirely to God ; and abuſed Gods Gifts and Favours to the Gratification of his own Lu+ts 3 Of both which ſee 2 CEron. 32. 25, 26. and for his carnal Confidence in that League which he had now made with the King of Babylon, by which, it 1s probable, he thought his Mountain co be ſo ſtrong, that it could not be removed.
18 And of thy ſons that ſhall iſſue from thee, which thou ſhalt beger g, ſhall they take away, and they ſhall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon h.
g 1.e, Of thy Grand-Children, who are oft called Sous. þ They ſhall be Servants to that Heathen Monarch, whereby both their Bodies will be ſubje& to Slavery, and the Luſts of their Lords, and their Souls expoſed to the peril of Idolatry, and all ſorts of Wicked- neſs ; which muſt needs be very grievous to ſo good a Man as Hezeklah, .and was indeed a very fore Judgment. Whereby God would teach the World the great Evil of (in, yea even of thoſe ins
which are generally efteemed bur ſmall and venial; for ſuch were thoſe ſins of Hezekiab noted upon v. 17.
I9 Then faid Hezekiah unto Iſaiah, Good is the word of the LORD 3, which thou haſt ſpoken. Andhe ſaid, [| 1s #* not good, if peace and truth be in my days & ?
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ſpeaksnot as if he were careleſs and unconcerned for his Poſteriry» ( which neither the common Inclinations and Affe&ions of Nature in all Men, nor that fingular Piety and Charity which was eminent and manifeſt in Hezekiah, can ſuffer us to believe ) or for the Church and People of God, for whoſe Welfare he was ſo ſolicitous and induſtrious in the whole Courſe of his Life ; bur becauſe it was a ſingular favour thatthis Judgment did not immediatety follow his ſin, the Cauſe of it, but was ſuſpended for a longer time. '
20 C And the reſt of the a&s of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the
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diſtin from the Prieſts,Ze-ph. 1.4.Pofſibly they were the highett rank of Prietts, becauſe they are here employed in the higheſt work, which was to burn Incenſe. » A particular god, of greateſt eſteem with them, fo called : though elſewhere the name of Baal js common to all falſe gods.
6 And he brought out the * grove » from the houſe the LORD, without Jeruſalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and ſtamp it ſmall to powder, and caſt the powder thereof upon the
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o See on ver. 4. f i.e. of the common people, whoſe Graves were made togerher in ſome common place, which was generally accoun- ted very impure and contemptible,and therefore a fit place for this filth ro be thrown into. Ocr,of Baſtards, who are oft called :he chil- dren of the people ; who as they had this brand of Infamy laid upon them, that they might not enter into the congregation of the Lord, Deut. 23.2. ſo poſſibly they were expoſed to this further Ignominy, to be buricd in a peculiar, and in the moſt infamous place. Oc rather, as it is in the Hebrew, of the people, 1. e. thoſe Idolatrous people, as it 1s explained, 2 Chr. 34.4. and here ſufficiently implied 1n this and rhe foregoing Verſe. E
7 And he brake down the houſes of the Sodomites q that were by the houſe of the LORD, where the women
wove Þ hangings r, for the grove /.