Was it not most gracious in God to send this message to the sinners in Israel? And was not the man of God most faithful in the delivery of it! Here is no congratulation of their victory, but reproof and an alarming assurance of the Lord's displeasure in consequence of their sins!
Verse 2 Chronicles 28:9. _BUT A PROPHET OF THE LORD - WHOSE NAME WAS ODED_] To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment; it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convinci...
Nothing more is known of this Oded. Compare 2 Chronicles 15:1. HE WENT OUT BEFORE THE HOST - Rather, “He went out to meet the host,” as the same phrase is translated in 2 Chronicles 15:2. A rag
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...
ODED. establishing. His name is prophetic. WENT OUT BEFORE THE HOST. Showing his courage. reacheth up unto heaven. Figure of speech _Hyperbole_ (App-6), to express the greatness of the rage....
_a prophet of the Lord was there_ Nothing further is known of Oded, but this may have been the only occasion on which be appeared as a prophet. _he went out before_ R.V. HE WENT OUT TO MEET. that _r...
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...
_That_ REACHETH, etc.] i.e. immoderate and excessive: cp. Ezra 9:6....
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 PROPHET ODED PROTESTS AGAINST RETENTION OF THE JEWISH CAPTIVES, AND THEY ARE SENT HOME (2 Chronicles 28:9). (9) BUT A PROPHET OF THE LORD. — This whole section is peculiar to the chronicler. The a...
וְ֠ שָׁם הָיָ֨ה נָבִ֥יא לַֽ יהוָה֮ עֹדֵ֣ד
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...
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, (e) because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Ju...
_Heaven, and cries for vengeance against you. Though God designed to punish his people, your cruelty will not be excused. H. --- The effect of this remonstrance, shews that all the kingdom of Israel w...
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...
BUT A PROPHET OF THE LORD WAS THERE, WHOSE NAME WAS ODED,.... Not the same that was in the time of Asa, 2 Chronicles 15:1, AND HE WENT OUT BEFORE THE HOST THAT CAME TO SAMARIA; that was coming thithe...
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,...
_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
_A prophet of the Lord was there_ By this it appears God continued his prophets among the Israelites, idolatrous as they were, that he might bring them to repentance, if they would hearken to their ad...
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,...
But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, he still maintained his position in the midst of the idolatrous nation; AND HE WENT OUT BEFORE THE HOST THAT CAME TO SAMARIA, before they had...
AHAZ DEFEATED BY THE SYRIANS AND BY ISRAEL...
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...
i.e. In a most high and fierce manner. A usual hyperbole, withal signifying that their rage did cry aloud, and was heard to heaven, from whence it would pull down vengeance upon them....
2 Chronicles 28:9 prophet H5030 LORD H3068 name H8034 Oded H5752 out H3318 (H8799) before H6440 army H6635
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...
_A prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded._ THE STORY OF THE PROPHET ODED Probably few will recognise this name. It is associated with no book of perpetual instruction, with no course of...
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 Kings 20:13; 1 Kings 20:22; 1 Kings 20:42; 2 Chronicles 19:1;...
A rage — An unbounded rage, which cries to God for vengeance, against such bloody men....