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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 32:21
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the Lord sent an angel, etc.] The Targum is, ``the Word of the Lord sent Gabriel;” Josephus f136 takes this angel, or messenger sent of God, to be the pestilence; and others suppose it to be a hot pestilential wind, common in the eastern countries, called “Samiel”, or the poison wind, by which multitudes are sometimes destroyed at once; of which Thevenot and other travellers make mention, (see Gill on “<182721>Job 27:21”), (see Gill on “<199106>Psalm 91:6”), but be it as it may, it was sent of God, was under his direction, and by his power and providence did the execution according to his prediction: which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria; the generals and officers of his army, with the common soldiers, to the number of 185,000, (<233601>Isaiah 36:1), among these, no doubt, were the three generals sent with railing letters to Hezekiah, particularly Rabshakeh, (See Gill on “<233736>Isaiah 37:36”) so he returned with shame of face to his own land; Assyria, particularly to Nineveh, the metropolis of it, (<233737>Isaiah 37:37) and when he was come into the house of his god; the temple of his idol, whose name was Nisroch: they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword; his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer, (<233738>Isaiah 37:38).
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