13. "Bind the chariot to the swift steed," in order by a hasty
flight to escape the invading foe. Compare Note, see on
Isa 36:2,
on "Lachish," at which Sennacherib fixed his headquarters
(2Ki 18:14, 17;
Jer 34:7).
she is the beginning of the sin to . . . Zion--Lachish was the first
of the cities of Judah, according to this passage, to introduce the
worship of false gods, imitating what Jeroboam had introduced in Israel.
As lying near the border of the north kingdom, Lachish was first to be
infected by its idolatry, which thence spread to Jerusalem.
JFB.
Picture Study Bible