Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
This story of the rage and blasphemy of Sennacherib, Hezekiah's prayer, and the deliverance of Jerusalem by the destruction of the Assyrian army, we had more at large in the book of Kings, 2 Kings 18 and 19. It is contracted here, yet large enough to show these three things: - I. The impiety and malice of the church's enemies.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 32:9-23
He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel,.... See Kg2 19:9. . 2 Chronicles 32:18 ch2 32:18 ch2 32:18 ch2 32:18Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall,....
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it? (g) Thus the wicked put no difference between true religion and false, God and idols: for Hezekiah only destroyed idolatry and replaced it with true religion.