2 Kings 18

2 Kings 18:1

Hezekiah] Godly Hezekiah the son of most wicked Ahaz, 2 Chron. XXVIII. 22. And father of a like wicked Manasseh, 2 King. XXIV. 3. 2 Chron. XXXIII. And godly Iosiah not much unlike.

He is a Type of Christ, Esay XXXII. 1.

2 Kings 18:2

twenty five years old] And therefore was borne in the eleventh yeare of his father Ahaz; because Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteen years, 2 King. XVI. 2. In all, thirty six when he died. Out of which take the foresaid twenty five; and so Hezekiah must be borne in the eleventh aforesaid. A thing not impossible. But to make Ahaz to be twenty, not when himself, but his father Iotham began to reigne, as it wresteth the Text, so it implies an utter impossibility, because Iotham was but twenty five years old when he himself began to reigne, 2 King. XV. 33. which thing was not well considered by the excellent Tremellius when he asserted that opinion; nor is it much favoured, though noted by our Annotators on 2 King. XVI. 2.

2 Kings 18:13

In the fourteenth year] Sennacherib comes up against Hezekiah; and partly prevailes against him. See the causes of this his warre, in the learned Annotations on Esay XXXVI. 1. And in the later end of that year Hezekiah fell sick: for he had 15. years added to his life, 2 King. XX. 6. which make up the twenty nine of his reigne. And in this time of his sicknesse, he had no some; because Manasseh his eldest sonne was borne three years after this sicknesse, being but twelve years old when his father Hezekiah died, 2 King. XXI. 1.