21
The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.
Highlighted
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Army. Hebrew “camp.”—Disgrace. The Jews pretend that he was deprived of his beard and hair, (Saint Jerome Trad.) misapplying the text of Isaiah 7:20. Calmet.—Sword, to prevent their being offered as victims, to appease the idol and the people. R. Solomon. Lyran.—This happened some months after the king’s return to Ninive, when he had cruelly oppressed the captive Jews and Tobias, 1:24. Tirinus.
that is, his own sons
Private to this browser.