2 Chronicles 28:10

_BUT A PROPHET OF THE LORD WAS THERE, WHOSE NAME WAS ODED: AND HE WENT OUT BEFORE THE HOST THAT CAME TO SAMARIA, AND SAID UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, BECAUSE THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS WAS WROTH WITH JUDAH, HE HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO YOUR HAND, AND YE HAVE SLAIN THEM IN A RAGE THAT REACHETH UP UNTO HEAVEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

ARE THERE NOT WITH YOU ... SINS AGAINST THE LORD? - The ten tribes had fallen away from the true faith far more completely and more hopelessly than the two. It was not for them to press hard against their erring brothers, and aggravate their punishment....

EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Kings 16:1. There is a great deal gained in this case by addition on the two accounts, however. Our chapter contains the wickedness by idolatry of Ahaz, the severe punishment thereof by the King of Syria, the Syrian captivity of Judah, and the release of the latter so unexpectedly (2 Chronicles 28:1); other punishments by war of Ahaz, his hardened heart, greater sins, and end (2 Chronicles 28:16-14). The united unsuccessful 'attacks of Syria and Israel, under Rezin and Pekah respectively, on Jerusalem, and attempt at the siege of Ahaz there; the Syrian recovery of Elath, and expulsion of the Jews thence, and the Assyrian taking of Da

AND NOW YE PURPOSE TO KEEP UNDER THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN UNTO YOU,.... As seemed by taking and bringing captive such a number of them, contrary to the law, Leviticus 25:39 BUT ARE THERE NOT WITH YOU, EVEN WITH YOU, SINS AGAINST THE LORD YOUR GOD? for which they deserved to be chastised as well as their brethren the men of Judah, and might expect it, and especially if they used them in a barbarous manner, and contrary to the will of God....

2 Chronicles 28:1. _Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel._ God had driven out the Canaanites because of these abominations; therefore, for his own people to practice them, was peculiarly provoking to him. 2 Chronicles 28:4. _He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree._ He

CHAPTER 28 THE REIGN OF AHAZ _ 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 28:1)_ 2. The punishment of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:5) 3. The message of Oded and its results (2 Chronicles 28:9) 4. Further punishments of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:16) 5. Death of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:26) On Ahaz his wicked reign and apostasy, as well as the war with Syria and the invasion of Judah by Israel, see our annotations on...

THE REIGN OF AHAZ. See notes on 2 Kings 16, but the Chronicler's account of this reign is largely independent of 2 K.; he makes the Syro-Ephraimite War two separate campaigns, Ahaz being in turn defeated by the Syrians and then by the northern Israelites. This cannot be regarded as historical in face of 2 Kings 16; the Chronicler has probably reconstructed the history with a view to bringing into greater relief the punishment of Ahaz on account of his faithlessness to Yahweh. In a number of other ways this section differs from the account in 2 Kings 16. 2 Chronicles 28:27. they brought him not. : but see 2 Kings 16:20....

ARE THERE NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ SINS. trespasses, or guilt. Hebrew. _asham_. App-44....

_keep under_ In Nehemiah 5:5, the same Heb. word is translated, "bring into bondage"; cp. Ryle's note on Hebrew slavery _in loco._One Hebrew might hold another Hebrew as a slave for a limited period, but in the present passage the case is of one part of the people taking advantage of the fortune of war to _reduce to slavery_thousands of their fellow-countrymen. with _you_, even _with you, sins_ R.V. EVEN WITH YOU TRESPASSES ("guiltinesses" Heb., cp. 2 Chronicles 24:18) OF YOUR OWN....

DISCOURSE: 419 A SENSE OF SINFULNESS A GOOD CORRECTIVE OF EVIL PASSIONS 2 Chronicles 28:10. _Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?_ IN viewing the various dispensations of Providence, we should regard the Supreme Disposer of all events not merely as a mighty Sovereign ordering every thing according to his own will, but rather as a moral Governor, who has respect to the welfare of his creatures, and consults the best interests of the universe. Towards individuals indeed his dealings may not accord with our ideas of retributive justice, because there is another world wherein the seeming inequalities of his present conduct towards them will all be rectified: but towards nations, as this is the only time when they can be dealt with in their national capacity, he conducts himself more visibly according to their moral habits, rewardi