Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
2 Kings 16:6
Recovered Elath to Syria— Elath, or Elam, was a famous port on the Red Sea, which David in his conquest of the kingdom took, and there established a great trade to divers parts of the world.
Recovered Elath to Syria— Elath, or Elam, was a famous port on the Red Sea, which David in his conquest of the kingdom took, and there established a great trade to divers parts of the world.
Verse 2 Kings 16:6. _RECOVERED ELATH TO SYRIA_] 2 Kings 14:22....
Either during the siege, or on breaking up from before Jeruasalem, Rezin made an expedition to the lied Sea coast, and became master of the city which had belonged to Judaea about 70 years (marginal r...
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 ...
SYRIA. Probably Edom (for _Aram)._ See note below. ELATH. It had belonged to Edom (2 Kings 14:22)....
_Rezin … recovered Elath to Syria_ Elath was a place of much importance to the Jews. It was situate at the top of the gulf of Akabah (_sinus Ælaniticus_), and was part of the land of Edom. But when th...
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...
_AT THAT TIME REZIN KING OF SYRIA RECOVERED ELATH TO SYRIA, AND DRAVE THE JEWS FROM ELATH: AND THE SYRIANS CAME TO ELATH, AND DWELT THERE UNTO THIS DAY._ Rezin ... recovered Elath - which Azariah had...
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....
TO SYRIA.. THE SYRIANS] The context requires 'to Edom.. the Edomites' (the latter correction being found in the LXX), since Elath had belonged to Edom and had been taken from it by Azariah (Uzziah, 2...
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...
AT THAT TIME. — Bähr regards this verse as a parenthesis, so that 2 Kings 16:7 is the strict continuation of 2 Kings 16:5, and “At that time” simply assigns this war as the epoch when Judah lost its o...
בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֗יא הֵ֠שִׁיב רְצִ֨ין...
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...
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered (d) Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. (d) Which Azariah had taken from the Syrian...
Juda. Literally, "Jews," Judæos, (Haydock) which is the first time we find this appellation. (Du Hamel) --- Aila, or Elath, which had been taken by Ozias, chap. xiv. 22. (Menochius) --- It seems never...
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...
AT THAT TIME REZIN KING OF SYRIA RECOVERED ELATH TO SYRIA,.... A port on the Red sea, that formerly belonged to Edom, taken from them by David, retaken by them when they revolted in Joram's time, and...
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. Ver. 6. _At that time._] When he came against J...
_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...
At that time Rezin, king of Syria, recovered Elath, the important harbor and commercial city at the head of the Elanitic Gulf, TO SYRIA, AND DRAVE THE JEWS FROM ELATH, thus cutting off one of the chie...
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...
RECOVERED ELATH, i.e. took it from the Jews, who had not long since taken it, 2 KINGS 14:22. It lay in the land of Edom, upon the Red Sea, very conveniently for navigation; of which SEE POOLE ON "1 KI...
2 Kings 16:6 time H6256 Rezin H7526 king H4428 Syria H758 captured H7725 (H8689) Elath H359 Syria H758 ...
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 16:6 REZIN... RECOVERED ELATH FOR SYRIA. This town had only recently been won back for Judah by Azariah (2 Kings 14:22). Rezin briefly reestablishe
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 9:26; 2 Chronicles 26:2; 2 Kings 14:22; Deuteronomy 2:8...