Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. The stout-hearted are spoiled ] The boasting blasphemers, such as Rab-shakeh, and his master Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
They have slept their sleep ] They were asleep in their tent when the destroying angel, the suffocating wind, destroyed the whole; they over whom it passed never more awoke.
None of the men of might ] Is not this a strong irony? Where are your mighty men? their boasted armour, &c.?
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Happy people are those who have their land filled with the knowledge of God! happy persons that have their hearts filled with that knowledge It is the glory and happiness of a people to have God among them by his ordinances. Wherein the enemies of the church deal proudly, it wil appear that God is above them. See the power of God's rebukes. With pleasure may Christians apply this to the advantages bestowed by the Redeemer.
Original Hebrew אשׁתוללו7997 אבירי47 לב3820 נמו5123 שׁנתם8142 ולא3808 מצאו4672 כל3605 אנשׁי582 חיל2428 ידיהם׃3027
