Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. Rejoiced, at being honoured by so great a prince, ( Menochius.) who afterwards defeated Asarhaddon. Tirinus.—Hebrew “hearkened unto them.” But the sense of the Vulg. is preferable, and the construction of the original seems to require it, as it is also understood by the Septuagint and Syriac, and by Isaias, 39:2.—Spices. Hebrew “precious things,” (Mont.) “treasures,” (Chal. Syr.) “cabinet” of jewels, and so forth Vatable.—Vessels, or armour, and all this fine furniture. S. Jerom says, that Ezechias also displayed before them the treasures of the temple, which chiefly drew upon him God’s displeasure. Calmet.—He might be guilty only of a venial sin of vanity and of ingratitude: ( Menochius.) and God took occasion, from this offence to admonish the king of the impending ruin. D.