So Ahaz sent messengers. — See Notes on 2 Chronicles 28:16; 2 Chronicles 28:20.
Which rise up against me. — Or, which are assailing me. “The vain confidence of the rulers of Judah, described by Isaiah in his first prophetic book, was rudely shaken by the progress of the war with Pekah and Rezin. Unreasoning confidence had given way to equally unreasoning panic. They saw only one way of escape — namely, to throw themselves upon the protection of Assyria.” (Robertson Smith.)