Both Syrians and Israelites shall become instruments in the hand of God when the Lord will punish Judah. And in the private afflictions of God's people the severity of our trials is doubly increased when it comes from a quarter where we least expected. When a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Verse 2 Chronicles 28:5. _DELIVERED HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF SYRIA_] For the better understanding of these passages, the reader is requested to refer to what has been advanced in the notes on...
The two battles here mentioned, one with Rezin (king of Syria), and the other with Pekah (king of Israel) are additions to the narrative of the writer of Kings (marginal reference “g”). The events of...
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...
HIS. Which should have been his. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE KING OF SYRIA: i.e. Rezin, whom God raised up as. scourge. THEY SMOTE HIM: i.e. when they took Elath (2 Kings 16:6)....
5 7 (cp. 2 Kings 16:5-9; Isaiah 7:1-9). The Syro-Ephraimite War The Chronicler describes the war from a different point of view from that taken in 2 Kin. In the latter the failure of the allies to ta...
_smote him_ From 2 Kin. it appears that the Syrian king, (1) helped to shut up Ahaz in Jerusalem, (2) seized the port of Elath (Eloth) on the Red Sea which had belonged to Judah. Some of the "captives...
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...
_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 DEL...
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...
THE KING OF SYRIA] i.e. Rezin, who, with Pekah of Israel, wished to depose Ahaz: see Isaiah 7....
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
THE WAR WITH REZIN OF SYRIA AND PEKAH OF ISRAEL; OR, THE SYRO-EPHRAITE CAMPAIGN (2 Chronicles 28:5). (Comp. 2 Kings 16:5; Isaiah 7:1.) (5) WHEREFORE (and) THE LORD HIS GOD DELIVERED HIM. — These openi...
וַֽ יִּתְּנֵ֜הוּ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָיו֮ בְּ יַ֣ד מ
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
SMITTEN FOR FORSAKING THE LORD 2 Chronicles 28:1 The reign of Ahaz was marked by terrible and rapid degeneration. He not only restored idolatry and offered his children to Moloch, but as the difficul...
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...
_Booty. Heb. "number of captives." H. --- The two kings had besieged Jerusalem without success: (4 K.) but now their forces were divided. M. --- The motives of this war were unjust, (Micheas ii. 8.)_...
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...
WHEREFORE THE LORD HIS GOD DELIVERED HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF SYRIA,.... Whose name was Rezin, 2 Kings 16:5, though that is an after expedition to this, which is there related. The Lord is cal...
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 de...
_Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him_, &c. Jehovah was _his_ God, though not by special relation, which Ahaz had renounced, yet by his sovereign dominion over him: for God did not forfeit his rig...
_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...
Wherefore the Lord, his God, still his God and ready to accept him if he would but turn to Him in true repentance, DELIVERED HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF SYRIA, who had shown a hostile attitude ev...
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...
DAMASCUS: _ Heb._ Darmesek...
THE LORD HIS GOD: God was his God, though not by covenant and grace, and special relation, which Ahaz had renounced, yet by his sovereign dominion over him; for God did not forfeit his right by Ahaz's...
2 Chronicles 28:5 LORD H3068 God H430 delivered H5414 (H8799) hand H3027 king H4428 Syria H758 defeated H5221
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...
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...
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...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 28:5 See 2 Kings 16:5 and Isaiah 7:1. The attacks 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...
2 Chronicles 24:24; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Chronicles 36:5;...
His God — God was his God, tho' not by special relation, (which Ahaz had renounced) yet by his sovereign dominion over him: for God did not forfeit his right by Ahaz's denying it....