Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 16:5
Could not overcome — Because God of his own mere grace, undertook his protection, and disappointed the hopes of his enemies.
Could not overcome — Because God of his own mere grace, undertook his protection, and disappointed the hopes of his enemies.
Verse 2 Kings 16:5. _BUT COULD NOT OVERCOME_ HIM.] It is likely that this was the time when Isaiah was sent to console Ahaz; (see Isaiah 7:1;) and predicted the death both of Rezin and Pekah, his enem...
Rezin and Pekah, who had already begun their attacks upon Judaea in the reign of Jotham 2 Kings 15:37, regarded the accession of a boy-king, only 16 years of age, as especially favorable to their proj...
7. KING AHAZ AND ASSYRIA CHAPTER 16 _ 1. King Ahaz and his reign (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Chronicles 28)_ 2. The invasion by the two kings (2 Kings 16:5) 3. Ahaz appeals to Assyria ...
2 KINGS 16. REIGN OF AHAZ. This chapter is assigned to different sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple, though it alludes to his apostasy and his wars. The Temple record ...
REZIN. Compare Isaiah 7. He and Pekah are the two firebrands of 2 Kings 7:4. The events in verses: 2 Kings 16:5 are said by some to contradict 2 Chronicl
_came up_to _Jerusalem to war_ The plans which had been formed in the reign of Jotham (see 2 Kings 15:37) were now put into execution. And from Isaiah 7:2 we can see into what agitation the people of...
B. THE REIGN OF AHAZ 16:1-20 Considerable attention is devoted to Ahaz because of the religious significance of his reign. For the first time since the bloody reign of Athaliah, the Davidic dynasty fa...
_THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA AND PEKAH SON OF REMALIAH KING OF ISRAEL CAME UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR: AND THEY BESIEGED AHAZ, BUT COULD NOT OVERCOME HIM._ Then Rezin ... and Pekah ... came up to Jerusalem...
AHAZ AND ASSYRIA This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria....
CAME UP TO JERUSALEM] Pekah's policy was to oppose the Assyrians, and in conjunction with Rezin he sought to induce Ahaz to join a coalition against them. Failing to persuade him, they took up arms fo...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 AHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Ahaz, Jotham’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. That was in the 17th year of...
THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA ... TO WAR. — This verse agrees almost word for word with Isaiah 7:1. The _time_ is soon after the accession of Ahaz. “Jotham, the last of a series of strong and generally suc...
אָ֣ז יַעֲלֶ֣ה רְצִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ ־אֲ֠רָם וּ פֶ֨ק
THE REIGN OF AHAZ B.C. 735-715 2 Kings 16:1 "Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams. He also against the House was bold: A l...
THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ 2 Kings 16:1 "For when we in our wickedness grow hard, Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our errors;...
SEEKING HELP FROM WRONG SOURCES 2 Kings 16:1 Ahaz was one of the most wicked kings of Judah. He not only passed his children through the lines of fire, but seems to have burned some of them, 2 Chroni...
Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under Tiglathpileser in his time of difficulty, and this was by deliberat...
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome (c) [him]. (c) For the Lord preserved the city and his pe...
Then. In punishment of such enormous crimes, God first delivered Achaz into the hands of Rasin, (2 Paralipomenon xxviii.; St. Jerome, in Isaias vii.) and afterwards Phacee destroyed 120,000 in one bat...
The prophet Isaiah, hath given us an account of this transaction in the 7th chapter of his prophecy. The Reader will do well, therefore, to consult the passage in Isaiah's writings. But what I would m...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehovah...
THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA, AND PEKAH SON OF REMALIAH KING OF ISRAEL, CAME UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR,.... To fight with Ahaz, moved to it by the Lord, to chastise Ahaz for his idolatry, 2 Kings 15:37 BUT...
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him]. Ver. 5. _Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah, &c._]...
_But could not overcome him_ Because God, of his own mere grace, undertook the protection of Judah, as he promised to do, and disappointed the designs and hopes of their enemies, Isaiah 7:1. _At that...
1 Ahaz his wicked reigne. 5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hireth Tiglath Pileser against them. 10 Ahaz sending a paterne of an Altar from Damascus to Urijah, diuerteth the brasen Altar to his ow...
Then Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, who had formed an alliance at the time of Jotham, 2 Kings 15:37, CAME UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR; AND THEY BESIEGED AHAZ, BUT COULD N...
AHAZ CALLS UPON ASSYRIA FOR HELP...
THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ (vv.1-4). Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was 20 years old when he bega...
1-9 Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them, will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God. The sin was its own punishment. It is common for those who bring th...
Because God of his own mere grace undertook their protection, as he promised to do, and disappointed the hopes and design of their enemies; of which see on ISA 7....
2 Kings 16:5 Rezin H7526 king H4428 Syria H758 Pekah H6492 son H1121 Remaliah H7425 king H4428 Israel H3478 up...
THE INVASION OF JUDAH BY REZIN KING OF ARAM AND PEKAH KING OF ISRAEL. JUDAH IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:4). The gathering threat from Israel and Aram to replace first Jotham, and then after his death Aha...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ KING OF JUDAH C. 732/1-716/15 BC. CO-REGENT FROM 744/43 BC. Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in Judah's history. Never before in that history had they...
CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz over Judah. Assyrians take Damascus. CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Tiglath-pileser, Urijah, Rezin, Pekah. CONCLUSION: That religion is of no worth which is guided by fancy instead o...
2 Kings 16:3. Ahaz _made his son pass through the fire._ It appears from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a god by lustrations; that is, by causing him to pass between two...
_In the seventeenth year of Pekah._ A PEOPLE’S KING AND PRIEST, OR KINGHOOD AND PRIESTHOOD I. The kinghood. 1. The de-humanising force of false religion. Ahaz was an idolator. 2. The national curs...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 16:2. TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAB WHEN, &c.—The _Sept._ MS. of the Vatican, and other MSS., give “_twenty-five_” in the corresponding...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 16:1 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH-
Now in the seventeenth year of Pekah, Remaliah or the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign (2 Kings 16:1). Ahaz the son of Jotham. So you have now an Ahaz reigning. Us...
1 Kings 11:36; 1 Kings 15:4; 2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Kings 15:37;...