03/17/2021 – Day 304 – 2 Chronicles 29 – 32//1 of 2: 32:31 – God tested Hezekiah that he might know all that is in his heart.
I have John Gill’s commentary on this last verse that I found interesting. But first a summary of the Hezekiah reading section:
- Hezekiah appears in three sections of the Bible:
- 2 Kings 16:20 – 20:21
- Within today’s reading: 2 Chronicles 28:27 – 32:33
- and finally, Isaiah 36:1 – 39:8
Hezekiah reigned for 29 years from 715 – 686 B.C. which explains the section in Isaiah. So , he starts his reign right after the fall of Israel, the ten tribes to Assyria in 722 B.C. and he ends his reign 100 years prior to the Babylonian captivity for the two remaining tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
2 Chronicles 32:31
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Howbeit, [in the business of] the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire the wonder that was [done]
in the land
Not to see the two tables of stone which were in the ark, with the other two that were broken because of the sin of the calf, as the Targum; nor to ask about the destruction of the Assyrian army, and the manner of it, as Grotius; but to be informed of the miracle of the sun’s going back ten degrees, when Hezekiah was recovered from his sickness; the Chaldeans being a people much given to astrology, and curious in their observations of that kind:
God left him to try him;
by showing him all his treasures:
that he might know all that was in his heart;
not that God might know, who knows all things, unless spoken of him after the manner of men; but rather that Hezekiah might know the pride lurking in his heart, and other sins which escaped his notice, ( Jeremiah 17:9 ) or that it might be known by others; that the children of men might know it, as Kimchi; and take warning by it, and observe the frailty and infirmity of the best of men.
I will add Jeremiah 17:9 (reference , paragraph above), to save you from the lookup: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desparately wicked, Who can know it?”
Soli Deo Gloria!