Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 19:7

7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him , and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

Heb. a wind, a Storm or Tempest, by which name God's Judgments are oft called; i. e. a violent, and sudden, and terrible Stroke; namely, That miraculous Destruction of his Army, of which ver. 35. Although the place may be rendred thus, I will put a Spirit within him, so that he shall hear a rumour, and return, &c. For by Spirit, is many times understood an Imagination, or Inclination, or Affection; in which sense we read of the Spirit of fear; 2 Tim. 1. 7. Of the Spirit of jealousie, Numb. 5. 14. Of the Spirit of slumber, Rom. 11. 8. Or, a Spirit against (for so the Hebrew Position Beth is oft used, as hath been noted before) him; Of whom this Word is elsewhere used, as Iudg. 9. 23. 1 Sam. 16. 14, 23. 1 King. 22. 23. as it is also given to Man's Soul, Iob 12. 10. Eccles. 12. 7. which is a Spiritual Substance, as the Angels are. And this Interpretation seems most agreeable to the design of this Verse, which is in brief to represent all the Judgments of God which were to befall him, and which are related in the following History; and therefore all the other Particulars being contained in the following Branches of this Verse; the tidings of Tirhakah, ver. 9. in these words, he shall hear a rumour; his returning to his own Land, and being slain there, ver. 36, 37. in the next words, it seems most probable, That the chiefest of all the Judgments, to wit, the Destruction of 185 thousand Soldiers in one night, ver. 35. is not omitted here, but expressed in the first branch of the Verse; and the Spirit here is the same thing, which is here called an Angel; this latter Word being there used, to limit and explain the former, which otherwise was of a doubtful signification.