2 Regi 20:13

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Ezechia a ascultat pe soli, şi le -a arătat locul unde erau lucrurile lui de preţ, argintul şi aurul, mirodeniile şi untdelemnul cel scump, casa lui cu arme şi tot ce se afla în vistieriile lui: n'a fost nimic pe care să nu li -l fi arătat Ezechia în casa lui şi în toate moşiile lui.

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showed: 2 Chronicles 32:27, Isaiah 39:2

precious things: or, spicery, 1 Kings 10:2, 1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 10:15, 1 Kings 10:25

armour: or, jewels, Heb. vessels

there was nothing: 2 Chronicles 32:25, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 20:15 - All the things 2 Chronicles 32:31 - in the business 2 Chronicles 36:18 - treasures Ezekiel 23:40 - to come

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them - The Jewish king lent a favorable ear to the proposals of the ambassadors, and exhibited to them the resources which he possessed, in order to induce them to report well of him to their master.

All the house of his precious things - literally, the “spice-house;” the phrase had acquired the more generic sense of “treasure-house” from the fact that the gold, the silver, and the spices were all stored together.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 20:13. Hezekiah hearkened unto them — Instead of וישמע vaiyishma, he hearkened, וישמח vaiyismach, he rejoiced or was glad, is the reading of twelve of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., the parallel place, Isaiah 39:2, the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Arabic, some copies of the Targum, and the Babylonian Talmud.

All the house of his precious things — Interpreters are not well agreed about the meaning of the original נכתה nechothoh, which we here translate precious things, and in the margin spicery or jewels. I suppose the last to be meant.

There was nothing in his house — He showed them through a spirit of folly and exultation, all his treasures, and no doubt those in the house of the Lord. And it is said, 2 Chronicles 32:31, that in this business God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart; and this trial proved that in his heart there was little else than pride and folly.