Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns, was but eight, which occasioned the delay of the reformation; but Hezekiah had come to years, and so applied himself immediately to it.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, Ch2 28:5. and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this; for this idolatry; or they were, though afterwards dismissed, Ch2 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, Ch2 28:17.
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem--This pious king had the discernment to ascribe all the national calamities that had befallen the kingdom to the true cause, namely, apostasy from God. The country had been laid waste by successive wars of invasion, and its resources drained.