2 Chronicles 28:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiantc men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. ”

• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The fearful loss here described may have been due to a complete defeat followed by panic.

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For (c) Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. (c) Who was king of...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Pekah the son of Hemaliah. Compare 2 Kings 15:27 and Isaiah 7 . As Pekah ends three years before Ahaz begins, this must have taken place between 632 and 629 B.C. valiant men . sons of valour....

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. A hundred and twenty thou...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. No JFB commentary o...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For. — And, i.e., so. Pekah... slew in Judah an hundred ... in one day. — Details of what is generally stated in the last sentence of 2 Chronicles 28:5 . The totals of slain and of captives...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Smitten for Forsaking the Lord 2 Chronicles 28:1-11 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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For Pekah son of Remaliah ,.... Who was at this time king of Israel: slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day , which were all valiant men ; a great slaughter to be made at one ti...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. Ver. 6. For Pekah the...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The King of Israel Defeats Ahaz. B. C. 738.       6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Ju...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  2 Chronicles 28:1-3 . 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 fathe...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - 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 28:6 - 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 28:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ahaz Defeated by the Syrians and by Israel

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 13:17 ; 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; 2 Kings 15:27 ; 2 Kings 15:37 ; Deuteronomy 28:15 ; Deuteronomy 28:25 ; Deuteronomy 29:24-26 ; Deuteronomy 31:16 ; Deuteronomy 31:17 ; Deuteronomy 3...

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• 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Forsaken — Ahaz walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and God chose the king of Israel for his scourge: it is just with God, to make them a plague to us, whom we have made our patterns, or par...

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