host, as recorded in 2 Kings 19 and Isa. 36, 37. All the circumstances in that invasion,—the tumultuous hosts summoned for the war (Isa. 36:2); the overthrow of numerous nations by their armies (Isa. 36:18–21); the siege of Jerusalem itself (Isa. 36:2); the confidence of Hezekiah and of his people in God when the city was besieged (Isa. 37:14–20); and the final overthrow of the Assyrian host by the angel of the Lord (Isa. 37:36), agree well with all the statements in the psalm, and seem well to illustrate