2 Chronicles 28:1
Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim, i. e as representatives of the different forms or characters of the chief Phoenician deity.
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...
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. 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...
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Wickedness of Ahaz. B. C. 738. 1 A...
To worship his Baalim, or false gods, in and by them.
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...
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...
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 Defeated by the Syrians and by Israel
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,...
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.