_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:_ Ahaz was twenty years old - (see the notes at 2 Kings 16:1.) This prince, discarding the principles and example of his... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, AND MADE ALSO MOLTEN IMAGES FOR BAALIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE THE LORD HIS GOD DELIVERED HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF SYRIA; AND THEY SMOTE HIM, AND CARRIED AWAY A GREAT MULTITUDE OF THEM CAPTIVES, AND BROUGHT THEM TO DAMASCUS. AND HE WAS ALSO DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF ISRAEL, WHO SMOTE HIM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER._ The Lord ... del... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH SLEW IN JUDAH AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN ONE DAY, WHICH WERE ALL VALIANT MEN; BECAUSE THEY HAD FORSAKEN THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ZICHRI, A MIGHTY MAN OF EPHRAIM, SLEW MAASEIAH THE KING'S SON, AND AZRIKAM THE GOVERNOR OF THE HOUSE, AND ELKANAH THAT WAS NEXT TO THE KING._ Maaseiah the king's son. Jerome ('Quaest. Hebraicae'), on this passage, renders the words "the king's son," 'the seed of Molech,' or the seed royal. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE OF THEIR BRETHREN TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND, WOMEN, SONS, AND DAUGHTERS, AND TOOK ALSO AWAY MUCH SPOIL FROM THEM, AND BROUGHT THE SPOIL TO SAMARIA._ The children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand. These captives include... [ Continue Reading ]
_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... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN WHICH WERE EXPRESSED BY NAME ROSE UP, AND TOOK THE CAPTIVES, AND WITH THE SPOIL CLOTHED ALL THAT WERE NAKED AMONG THEM, AND ARRAYED THEM, AND SHOD THEM, AND GAVE THEM TO EAT AND TO DRINK, AND ANOINTED THEM, AND CARRIED ALL THE FEEBLE OF THEM UPON ASSES, AND BROUGHT THEM TO JERICHO, THE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AT THAT TIME DID KING AHAZ SEND UNTO THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA TO HELP HIM._ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria - "kings," the plural for the singular, which in many ancient versions is found. "At that time" refers to the period of Ahaz's great distress, when, after a succession... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR AGAIN THE EDOMITES HAD COME AND SMITTEN JUDAH, AND CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVES._ Again the Edomites had come. This invasion must have been after Rezin (at the beginning of the late Syro-Israelite war) had released that people from the yoke of Judah (2 Chronicles 15:11: cf. 2 Kings 16:6; Isaiah 7:1;... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PHILISTINES ALSO HAD INVADED THE CITIES OF THE LOW COUNTRY, AND OF THE SOUTH OF JUDAH, AND HAD TAKEN BETH-SHE'MESH, AND AJALON, AND GEDEROTH, AND SHOCHO WITH THE VILLAGES THEREOF, AND TIMNAH WITH THE_ _ VILLAGES THEREOF, GIMZO ALSO AND THE VILLAGES THEREOF: AND THEY DWELT THERE._ Gederoth - on... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LORD BROUGHT JUDAH LOW BECAUSE OF AHAZ KING OF ISRAEL; FOR HE MADE JUDAH NAKED, AND TRANSGRESSED SORE AGAINST THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 relief which Tilgath-pilneser afforded him by the conquest of Damascus and the slaughter of Rezin ... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR AHAZ TOOK AWAY A PORTION OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THE KING, AND OF THE PRINCES, AND GAVE IT UNTO THE KING OF ASSYRIA: BUT HE HELPED HIM NOT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN THE TIME OF HIS DISTRESS DID HE TRESPASS YET MORE AGAINST THE LORD: THIS IS THAT KING AHAZ._ In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more. This infatuated king surrendered himself to the influence of idolatry, and exerted his royal authority to extend it, with the intensity of a pas... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE SACRIFICED UNTO THE GODS OF DAMASCUS, WHICH SMOTE HIM: AND HE SAID, BECAUSE THE GODS OF THE KINGS OF SYRIA HELP THEM, THEREFORE WILL I SACRIFICE TO THEM, THAT THEY MAY HELP ME. BUT THEY WERE THE RUIN OF HIM, AND OF ALL ISRAEL._ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus. His superstitious... [ Continue Reading ]