Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 36. Because. Hebrew and Septuagint “that the Lord had disposed his people, for the thing was done suddenly,” ( Bible.) to place no obstacle to this sudden change from one extreme to the other, at a time when the king was scarcely established on the throne. Calmet.—Thus the people of England rejoiced, when the Catholic religion was re-established by the means of queen Mary and cardinal Pole. Philips. 9.—But the minds of the people are very fickle. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis. Still the joy may show, that all love for truth is “not extinct,” as the Cardinal argued from the people’s conduct. Poli. ep. Bible.