2 Chronicles 28:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers. ”

2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And in every several city of Judah he made high places. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 28:2-4 . And provoked to anger. — Deuteronomy 32:16 . Instead of this 2 Chronicles 28:18 obscurely mentions furth...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe the progression of sin when the mind is hardened under its influence. You see Ahaz robs God's house to purchase man's arm against him; sacrificeth to devil's to gain human interest. And thus...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto the gods ,.... The gods of Damascus, and other idols; this he did to prevent their coming to Jerusalem to worship.
2 Chronicles 28:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers. Ver. 25. And in every several city of Judah. ] So zealous...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - 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...
2 Chronicles 28:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ahaz, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness
2 Chronicles 28:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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2 Chronicles 28:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 28:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 28:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Chronicles 28:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge