| II Chronicles 32:21
| *And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the stout men and the warriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and he returned with disgrace into his own country. And when he was come into the house of his god, his sons that came out of his bowels, slew him with the sword.
| Army. Hebrew, "camp." --- Disgrace. The Jews pretend that he was deprived of his beard and hair, (St. Jerome, Trad.) misapplying the text of Isaias 7:20. (Calmet) --- Sword, to prevent their being offered as victims, to appease the idol and the people. (R. Solomon) (Lyranus) --- This happened some months after the king's return to Ninive, when he had cruelly oppressed the captive Jews and Tobias, 1:24. (Tirinus)
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