2 Chronicles 28:2

For. He outdid the kings of Israel: compare 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 16:4, which brought forth the prophecies of Isaiah, Micah, Nahurn, and others.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim, i. e as representatives of the different forms or characters of the chief Phoenician deity.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (a) he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for (b) Baalim. (a) He was an idolater like them. (b) As the idol...
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

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And made also molten images for Baalim. — For the Baals, i.e., the different aspects or avatars of the Canaanite god. This clause is added by 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

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 idola...
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

What a melancholy account is here given in a few verses of the life and conduct of Ahaz! had we not the authority of God's sacred word it would be in...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 28:1
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. Ver. 2. For hs walked in the ways of the kings of Israel...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord Nay, he did a great deal that was wrong, very wrong, and that toward God, toward his own...
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...
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

The Wickedness of Ahaz. B. C. 738. 1 A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To worship his Baalim, or false gods, in and by them.
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 Biblical Illustrator

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. The ways of the kings of Israel Israel was for the most part more powerful, wealthy, and cult...
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

Ahaz Defeated by the Syrians and by Israel
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, whose defection from the worship of Jehovah was notorious, and made also molten images for Baalim,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 16:31-33 ; 2 Chronicles 21:6 ; 2 Chronicles 22:3 ; 2 Chronicles 22:4 ; 2 Kings 10:26-28 ; Exodus 34:17 ; Hosea 2:13 ; Hosea 2:17 ; J...

² For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 28:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:2