And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. To God in heaven; of the prayer of Hezekiah on this account, see Isa 37:15, and the notes there; See Gill on Isa 37:15, Isa 37:16, Isa 37:17, Isa 37:18, Isa 37:19, Isa 37:20 and though we read not of the prayer of Isaiah, no doubt he made one, as Hezekiah desired, and since he received a message from the Lord, which he sent to Hezekiah, Isa 37:4. . 2 Chronicles 32:21 ch2 32:21 ch2 32:21 ch2 32:21And the Lord sent an angel,.... The Targum is,"the Word of the Lord sent Gabriel;''Josephus (a) takes this angel, or messenger sent of God, to be the pestilence; and others suppose it to be a hot pestilential wind, common in the eastern countries, called "Samiel", or the poison wind, by which multitudes are sometimes destroyed at once; of which Thevenot and other travellers make mention; see Gill on Job 27:21; see Gill on Psa 91:6, but be it as it may, it was sent of God, was under his direction, and by his power and providence did the execution according to his prediction: which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria; the generals and officers of his army, with the common soldiers, to the number of 185,000, Isa 36:1, among these, no doubt, were the three generals sent with railing letters to Hezekiah, particularly Rabshakeh; see Gill on Isa 37:36. so he returned with shame of face to his own land; Assyria, particularly to Nineveh, the metropolis of it, Isa 37:37. and when he was come into the house of his god; the temple of his idol, whose name was Nisroch: they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword; his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer, Isa 37:38. (a) Antiqu. l. 10. c. 1. sect. 5.