Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
We may observe here, 1. That, if God give us inward satisfaction in his promise, this may confirm us in our silently bearing reproaches. God answered Hezekiah, but it does not appear that he, after deliberation, sent any answer to Rabshakeh; but, God having taken the work into his own hands, he quietly left the matter with him. So Rabshakeh returned to the king his master for fresh instructions. 2.
Commenting on Isaiah 37:8-20
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it,.... Or books (k), in which the above things were written; and everyone of these he read, as Kimchi interprets it; though the Targum is, "he took the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read one of them;'' that is, as Kimchi's father explains it, in which was the blasphemy...
Hena . . . Ivah--in Babylonia. From Ava colonists had been brought to Samaria (Kg2 17:24).