2 Chronicles 28:16

kings. the great king. Plural of majesty.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the (m) kings of Assyria to help him. (m) To Tiglath Pileser and those kings who were under his dominion, ( 2 K...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. The kings of Assyria to help him - Instead of מלכי malchey; Kings; the Vulgate...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria - "kings," t...
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 Is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The kings ] The LXX, more appropriately, has 'the king,' the allusion being to Tiglath-pileser ( 2 Chronicles 28:20 ). But Chronicles frequently use...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

UNDER THE PRESSURE OF NEW ENEMIES, AHAZ ASKS HELP FROM ASSYRIA, BUT RECEIVES HURT ( 2 Chronicles 28:17-21 ). (Comp. 2 Kings 16:7-18 .) (16) At t...
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...
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 antic...
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...
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 tran...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

At that time did King Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him. To Tiglathpileser, and his son, see 2 Kings 16:7 , and the Septuagint, Vulgat...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. Ver. 16. Did Ahaz send unto the king of Assyria. ] Heb., Kings; so he is ca...
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 th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Did Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him That is, the king, namely, Tiglath-pileser, ( 2 Kings 16:7 ,) the plural number being put for t...
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 wor...
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 ca...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The kings of Assyria, i.e. the king; the plural number for the singular; either, 1. Because he was a great king and a king of kings; as the eleph...
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 omiss...
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 ri...
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 reache...
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 meanin...
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....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

At that time, when Judah had just suffered this severe defeat, besides losing the harbor of Eloth, on the Red Sea, to the Syrians, did King Ahaz sen...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ahaz, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 16:5-7 ; Isaiah 7:17 ; Isaiah 7:1-9
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Kings — Princes, who may be called kings in a more general signification of the word.

¹⁶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 28:16

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Chronicles 28:16