Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 32:1

1. BEhold, a king b shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

Therefore Hezekiah was not King when this Prophecy was delivered. And whereas some say, That he speaks of the good Government of Hezekiah, after the Destruction of Sennacherib; it is easy to observe, That his Government was as good before that time as afterward; and that in the very beginning of his Reign, he Ruled with Righteousness, and the fear of God as the History plainly declareth.

The Ministers of State, and Justice, and War, under the King. For a wise and good King will take care to have like Ministers.

a This seems to me to be a distinct Prophecy from the former, and delivered at another time, and probably before that which is related in the former Chapters. For this is certain, and confessed by all, That the Prophecies are not alwayes set down in that order, in which the Prophets delivered them. The foregoing Prophecy seems to have been delivered, not in the time of Ahaz, for he sent to the Assyrian, and not to the Egyptian, for Help; but in the days of Hezekiah, who Rebelled against the King of Assyria, as is said, 2 Kings 18. 7. and was too prone to trust upon the staff of Egypt, as the Assyrian expressly chargeth him there, ver▪ 21. To which Course it is likely he was drawn or tempted by some of his wicked Princes and Counsellours, whom the Prophet therefore severely censures and condemns in the two foregoing Chapters. And this seems to have been delivered in the time of Ahaz, and to speak of Hezekiah, and of his righteous and happy Government; but withal, as Hezekiah and his Reign, was an eminent Type of Christ, and of His Kingdom; so this Prophecy looks thorough Hezekiah unto Christ, as many other Scriptures in their literal Sence do unquestionably concern David, which yet have a mystical Sence, and are also meant of Christ, in whom those things were more f[illegible: 1+ letters]lly and eminently accomplished. Hezekiah, a Type of Christ, and Christ Typified by him.

Marginal references: Psal. 45. 1. Zech. 9. 9▪