2 Chronicles 28:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. ”

• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Ahaz king of Israel - An instance of the lax use of the word “Israel” 2Ch 12:6 ; 2 Chronicles 21:2 . It is simply equivalent to “king of Judah.” He made Judah naked - literally, “he had c...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of (n) Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. (n) He means Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Israel. See note on 2 Chronicles 21:2 . naked: i.e. had stripped Judah of the worship and service of God. transgressed . acted treacherously: i.e. been grievously unfaithful. Hebrew. ma'al....

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ahaz king of Israel. — Most commentators see an irony in this expression. But, as has been stated before, the southern kingdom was Israel in the chronicler’s idea; although that of the Ten Tribes...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel ,.... Because of his impieties and idolatries, which the people by his example went into; he is called king of Israel, because he walked...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. Ver. 19. For he made Judah naked. ] He stripped them of the sincere...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He made Judah naked; taking away their ornament and their defence and strength, to wit, their treasures, which he sent to the Assyrian to no purpose; their frontier towns, and other strong holds, w...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  2 Chronicles 28:19 , 2 Chronicles 28:22-23 ; 2 Chronicles 28:25 I. The career of Ahaz illustrates that law of character by which the wickedness of a man is proportioned to the amount of holy...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel. The sin of Ahaz I. I would draw attention to some special points in the history of ahaz. 1. The king himself was peculiarly the...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ahaz, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:7 ; 2 Chronicles 21:2 ; Deuteronomy 28:43 ; Exodus 32:25 ; Genesis 3:11 ; Genesis 3:7 ; Hosea 5:11 ; Job 40:12 ; Micah 6:16 ; Proverbs 29:23 ; Psalms 106:41-43 ; Revelation 16:...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Low — As high as they were before in wealth and power. They that will not humble themselves under the word of God will be humbled by his judgments. Naked — Taking away their ornament and their defe...

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