What does 2 Chronicles 28:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not."
TILGATH-PILNESER - This form of the name is doubly corrupt. See the properly Hebraized form in 2 Kings 15:29. DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT - This statement, and that at the end of 2 Chron...
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 p...
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 defea...
TILGATH-PILNESER. Compare 2 Kings 16:10. The accounts in Kings and Chronicles are complementary. See App-56....
_Tilgath-pilneser_ i.e. Tiglath-pileser III. Cp. 1 Chronicles 5:6 (note). _came … him not_ Some error in the text is probable here. The Hebrew cannot be rendered as in the A.V., but no satisfactory e...
DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT— And yet in Exodus 16:9 it is said that he _did help him._ How then can he be said to have _distressed him?_ Very well: for as he came to his assistance agains...
13. THE REIGN OF AHAZ (Chapter 28) TEXT 2 Chronicles 28:1. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eye...
_AND TILGATH-PILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UNTO HIM, AND DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT._ Tilgath-pilneser ... distressed him, but strengthened him not - i:e., notwithstanding the temporary...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ This chapter recounts how the idolatry of Ahaz was punished by the attacks of Syria and Israel; how the captives taken by the Israelites were restored; and how Ahaz in his distress...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 28 AHAZ – 2 CHRONICLES 28:1-27 V1 Ahaz was 20 years old when he became...
TILGATH-PILNESER (Heb., _Pilne’èser_). In 2 Kings more correctly called _Tiglath-pileser_ (_Pil’èser_). (See Note on 1 Chronicles 5:26.) According to the As syrian Eponym Canon, Tiglath-pileser II. ca...
וַ יָּבֹ֣א עָלָ֔יו תִּלְּגַ֥ת פִּלְנְאֶ֖סֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וַ יָּ֥צַר לֹ֖ו וְ לֹ֥א חֲזָקֹֽו׃...
UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AND AHAZ 2 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 28:1 AFTER the assassination of Amaziah, all the people of Judah took his son Uzziah, a lad of sixteen, called in the book...
A WICKED KING'S BLIND FOLLY 2 Chronicles 28:12 This sending of the captives home, clothed, shod, and anointed was a beautiful act, and anticipates the spirit of Christianity. This is the true way of...
The whole reign of Ahaz was a period of terrible and rapid degeneracy. With appalling fearlessness the king restored all the evils of idolatry, even including the terrible offering of children to Molo...
_And. Heb. and Sept. "And....the king....came against him, and smote him." Hebrew continues, "but strengthened him not" in the end; though he had been invited, (v. 16.; H.) and had actually made a div...
Observe the progression of sin when the mind is hardened under its influence. You see Ahaz robs God's house to purchase man's arm against him; sacrificeth to devil's to gain human interest. And thus g...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 THROUGH 31. Jotham, the son of Uzziah, walks uprightly; and he avoids his father's fault; but the people are still corrupt. Nevertheless the faithfulness...
AND TILGATHPILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UNTO HIM,.... Not to Jerusalem, but to Damascus, where he made a diversion in his favour, and took that city, and where Ahaz met him, 2 Kings 16:9 AND DISTRES...
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. Ver. 20. _And Tilgathpilneser._] See 2 Kings 16:10 . _ And distressed him, but strengthened him not._...
_A.M. 3263. B.C. 741._ Ahaz reigns ill, 2 Chronicles 28:1. _Is smitten by the Syrians and Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:5; who send back the captives they had taken, 2 Chronicles 28:9_. _Ahaz sends for...
1 Ahaz reigning very wickedly, is greatly afflicted by the Syrians. 6 Iudah being captiuated by the Israelites, is sent home by the counsell of Oded the Prophet. 16 Ahaz sending for aide to Assyria,...
AHAZ, DISTRESSED BY ASSYRIA, CONTINUES IN HIS WICKEDNESS...
THE UNGODLY REIGN OF AHAZ (vv.1-4) Ahaz stands in painful contrast to his father. Jotham had been unable to rightly influence Judah to cease worshipping in high places, and it seems his influence ov...
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2 Chronicles 28:20 Tiglath-Pileser H8407 king H4428 Assyria H804 came H935 (H8799) distressed H6696 (H8799) assist H2388 (H8804) Tilgathpilneser - 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 16:7-10, Tiglath-pileser, 1 C...
2 Chronicles 28:1. _Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem:_ So that he died before he reached the prime of life; he was cut off by God in the ver...
CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz. War with Rekah. Intercession of Oded. Edomite and Philistine invasion. CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Syrian king, Tiglath-pileser, Zechri, Pekah, Oded. CONCLUSION: If men will not...
2 Chronicles 28:3. _Burnt his children._ In 2 Kings 16:3, it is said he made his son “pass through the fire.” The Hebrew term has a double meaning. Sometimes it implies the burning of children in the...
2 CHRONICLES 28:1 Ahaz. The account of Ahaz’s reign (735–715 B.C.) shows how his spiritual unfaithfulness brought Judah to ruin. Yet the dark picture of Judah’s decline is lessened somewhat by its nor...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 2 Kings 16, and gives chief events in same order. Narrative fuller in military affairs, yet an omission of two or three facts. Idolatry of A. and its con...
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...
By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now to II Chronicles, chapter 28. We are now moving into the final stages of the deterioration of this nation prior to its destruction. Ahaz is now the king. He is twenty...
1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 17:5; Hosea 5:13; Isaiah 30:16; Isaiah 30:3; Isaiah 7:20; Jeremiah 2:37...
Distressed — Or, straitened him, by robbing him of his treasures. Strengthened not — A most emphatical expression: for tho' he weakened his present enemy the Syrian, yet all things considered, he did...