“ For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.e ”
The Edomites took advantage of the reverses of Ahaz, and were perhaps in league with Rezin (see 2 Kings 16:6 note). The pitilessness of Edom, and her readiness to turn against Judah in any severe...
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 de...
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. Again the Edomites had come. This invasion must have been after Rezin (at the beginning of the late Syro-Israelit...
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 distre...
For again. — And moreover. Smitten Judah. — Smitten in Judah, i.e., inflicted a defeat upon her. After their reduction by Uzziah, the Edomites had probably remained subject to Judah, until R...
UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AND AHAZ 2 Chronicles 26:1-23 ; 2 Chronicles 27:1-9 ; 2 Chronicles 28:1-27 AFTER the assassination of Amaziah, all the people of Judah took his son Uzziah, a lad of sixteen, c...
a Wicked King's Blind Folly 2 Chronicles 28:12-27 This sending of the captives home, clothed, shod, and anointed was a beautiful act, and anticipates the spirit of Christianity. This is the tru...
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 Mol...
It is hardly possible to read this account of Ahaz's distress, and behold at the same time the sad cause of all in his multiplied and aggravated transgressions, without being struck with a renewed co...
For again the Edomites had come ,.... As in the days of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:10 , and smitten Judah, and carried away captives ; taking the advantage of the weak and low condition Ahaz wa...
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. Ver. 17. For again the Edomites. ] "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; whenas he that trusteth in the Lord" - which...
A.M. 3263. B.C. 741. Ahaz reigns ill, 2 Chronicles 28:1-4 . Is smitten by the Syrians and Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:5-8 ; who send back the captives they had taken, 2 Chronicles 28:9-15...
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 influenc...
16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. 18 The Philistines also had invaded the c...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Kings 16:1-12 . 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, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness
2 Chronicles 25:11 ; 2 Chronicles 25:12 ; Leviticus 26:18 ; Obadiah 1:10 ; Obadiah 1:13 ; Obadiah 1:14