2 Chronicles 25:11; 2 Chronicles 25:12; Leviticus 26:18; Obadiah 1:10; Obadiah 1:13; Obadiah 1:14
The Edomites took advantage of the reverses of Ahaz, and were perhaps in league with Rezin (see 2 Kings 16:6 note). The pitilessness of Edom, and...
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...
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. Again the Edomites had come. This invasion must have been after...
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 Edomites ] Rezin had previously captured Elath and returned it to the Edomites ( 2 Kings 16:6 ), and this doubtless encouraged them to retaliate...
For again. — And moreover. Smitten Judah. — Smitten in Judah, i.e., inflicted a defeat upon her. After their reduction by Uzziah, the Edomit...
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...
For again the Edomites had come ,.... As in the days of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:10 , and smitten Judah, and carried away captives ; taking t...
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. Ver. 17. For again the Edomites. ] "Many sorrows shall be to the wic...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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 . 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....
Ahaz, Distressed by Assyria, Continues in his Wickedness
For again the Edomites, freed from the sovereignty of Judah by the campaign of Rezin of Syria, had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives...
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.e