Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 20:3

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth , and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore .

i. e. Sincerely, with an honest mind, as the following words explain it. I have in some measure (humane frailty excepted) kept the condition which thou didst require, 1 King. 8. 25. and therefore do humbly beg of thee, that the Promise made to David and to his Posterity upon that condition, may not fail in my Person, for as yet thou hast not given me a Son. See on ver. 1. I am not conscious to my self of any gross exorbitancies in the course of my life, for which thou usest to shorten mens days, and cut off my life in thy displeasure, which by this sharp Message thou threatnest to do.

Partly, for that horror of death which is and was common to men, especially, in the times of the Old Testament, when the Grace of God in Christ was not so fully manifested, as now it is: and principally, for the distracted and miserable condition in which the Church and State were then likely to be left, through the uncertainty of the Succession to the Crown, and the great proneness of the People to backslide to their false worship, and evil practises; which he easily perceived, and which he knew would bring far worse Calamities upon them, if he were removed; as afterwards it came to pass.

Marginal references: Heb. with a great weeping.