2 Kings 16:5-7; Isaiah 7:17; Isaiah 7:1-9
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...
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...
kings . the great king. Plural of majesty.
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...
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...
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...
The kings ] The LXX, more appropriately, has 'the king,' the allusion being to Tiglath-pileser ( 2 Chronicles 28:20 ). But Chronicles frequently use...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 2 Kings 16 , and gives chief events in same order. Narrative fuller in military affairs, yet an omiss...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Ahaz, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness
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.