the covert for the sabbath] A place in the temple for them, or, for the priests, who by sabbaths, or weeks kept their courses (of whom intimation is made, chap. 11. v. 5.) to rest therein: this he took away. the kings entry without] The gallery without the temple, whereby the king ascended from his own palace to the house of God. Hereof see the notes on 1 Kings 10:5. turned he from, &c.] Because he had no minde to go to Gods house, the doors whereof he shut up, 2 Chronicles 28:24. for the king of Assyria] Partly to collogue with him by shewing a detestation of the Jewish religion, and partly to cut of all bie-passages to his palace, through fear of the king of Assyria.