Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 28:14
Left the captives — And herein they shewed a more truly heroic bravery, than they did in taking them. It is true honour for a man to yield to reason and religion even in spite of interest.
Left the captives — And herein they shewed a more truly heroic bravery, than they did in taking them. It is true honour for a man to yield to reason and religion even in spite of interest.
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
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...
CONGREGATION. assembly....
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 eyes...
_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,...
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 ol
ARMED MEN. — See 2 Chronicles 17:18. THE PRINCES, “the heads” of 2 Chronicles 28:12. THE CONGREGATION. — The assembly of the citizens at the gate of Samaria....
וַ יַּעֲזֹ֣ב הֶֽ חָל֗וּץ אֶת ־הַ שִּׁבְיָה֙
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, calle
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...
I feel delight in the perusal of those verses in that they plainly manifest the grace of the Lord had not totally departed from Israel. Certain persons among them still felt the sovereign grace of the...
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...
SO THE ARMED MEN LEFT THE CAPTIVES AND THE SPOIL BEFORE THE PRINCES AND THE CONGREGATION. Which were come out of Samaria to meet them; such an effect had the word's of the prophet, and the princes, up...
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. Ver. 14. _So the armed men left the captives._] See here what a few may do against a multitude, in a good...
_So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes_, &c. To be disposed of as they pleased. And herein they showed a more truly heroic bravery than they did by taking them. For it is...
_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
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 DEFEATED BY THE SYRIANS AND BY ISRAEL...
So the armed men, overcome by the earnestness of the remonstrances, LEFT THE CAPTIVES AND THE SPOIL BEFORE THE PRINCES AND ALL THE CONGREGATION....
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 28:14 men H2502 (H8803) left H5800 (H8799) captives H7633 spoil H961 before H6440 leaders H8269
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...
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...
_Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign._ THE MYSTERIOUS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT The growth of humanity is not after a horticultural manner. We cannot say that a good tree will have good off-s...
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...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 28:8 Just as Syria has done (v. 2 Chronicles 28:5), Israel takes captives with the intention of enslaving them. The intervention by...
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 12:23; 2 Chronicles 20:21...