A Commentary by Harry Whittaker

The dominant references to Jerusalem fit Hezekiah's time remarkably well, and the allusions to various Gentile neighbors of Israel chime in with all that is known of Hezekiah's reign.

The prohet's language about the Locust Invaison is truly horrific.

The present writer will attempt to vincidate in detail his conviction that, whereas there may have been an invasion of literial locusts, these were employed by God and His prophet as a kind of visual aid to add yet more force to the terrors of a military invasion of Judah by the dreaded Assyrians in the time of King Hezkiah.

But this is less than half the story, for the normal pattern of Bible prophecy (with very few exceptions) is the presentation of a two fould message:
1. A contemporary reference to events which have just happened or are about to happen.
2. A Messianic reference, concerning the firest or second Advents of Christ.