2 Chronicles 28:8-27 ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time did King Ahaz … kings of Assyria . The vagueness of this common formula, "at that time," would doubtless not have been apparent in the original sources. In the present instance we may fall back on our 2 Chronicles 28:5 , 2 Chronicles 28:6 to give it distinctness; but see 2 Chronicles 28:5 , 2 Chronicles 28:6 , 2 Chronicles 28:7 of the parallel, which involve their own formula and the present in some little uncertainty. The kings of Assyria. The Septuagint and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:16-21

An unfortunate embassy. I. THE PERSON APPROACHED . Tiglath-Pilneser ( 2 Chronicles 28:20 ), Tiglath-Pileser ( 2 Kings 16:7 ); in Assyrian, Takul-u- (Tukeal) -habal-i-sar-ra, meaning "He who puts his trust in Adar," or, "Adar is my confidence;" in the LXX . θαλγαθ - φελασσάρ ; the same person as Pal King of Assyria, to whom Menahem of Israel gave a thousand talents of silver as a bribe for aid to keep the throne he had usurped ( 2 Kings 15:17 ). Originally a... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:17

The Edomites . So the work of Amaziah ( 2 Chronicles 25:11 , 2 Chronicles 25:14 ; 2 Kings 14:7 ) in reducing Edom was again undone (see also 2 Kings 16:7 , where "Edom" should be read for "Aram"). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:17-19

Blow upon blow. Ahaz was a very great transgressor, and he was (as we might expect he would be) a very great sufferer. He received blow upon blow from the righteous hand of that holy Ruler who by present and temporal visitations was educating his people in the ways of heavenly wisdom. First Rezin King of Syria defeated him, and carried away many captives to Damascus ( 2 Chronicles 28:5 ). Then Pekah King of Israel slew his army with a great and pitiless slaughter ( 2 Chronicles 28:6 ).... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:18

The Philistines . These also had been subjugated again and again, and of late by Uzziah ( 2 Chronicles 26:6 , 2 Chronicles 26:7 ), work that was now undone. The exultant relief to the Philistines, short-lived though it was, is referred to elsewhere, as in the Book of Isaiah ( Isaiah 14:29 , 81), the Psalms (Palm Psalms 60:8 ). Beth-shemesh . On the border of Judah ( 2 Chronicles 25:23 , and our note there; 1 Chronicles 6:44 ). Ajalon , This was also on the border ( 1... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:19

Ahaz King of Israel . So Jehoshaphat was called in 2 Chronicles 21:2 "King of Israel. " If these two occasions are not merely cases of the writer's or of a copyist's easily imaginable mistake, they must be regarded as naming the king of the chief divided kingdom by the title of the whole kingdom or people. He made Judah naked ; Revised Version, had dealt wantonly in Judah; or margin, Revised Version, had cast away restraint in Judah; Hebrew, הִפְרִיַע . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:20

Tilgath-Pilneser (see 1 Chronicles 5:6 , 1 Chronicles 5:26 ; 2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 16:10 , our parallel. See our notes in full on 1 Chronicles 5:6 , 1 Chronicles 5:26 ). Gesenius dates his reign as King of Assyria as B.C. 753-734; others as about B.C. 747-728. Distressed him, but strengthened him not . This is in our writer's usual deeper moral and religious vein, and was no doubt most true. For all Ahaz paid and bribed out of the sacrilegiously employed treasure of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:21

Add to references of last verse 2 Chronicles 16:2 ; 2 Kings 12:18 ; 2 Kings 18:15 . But he helped him not . See the parallel in its 2 Kings 18:9 ( 2 Kings 16:1-20 .), and note on our foregoing verse. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:21-27

Sin in its issues. To what will sin lead us? What, when it nears its end and when it is finished, will it bring forth? We have the answer in this portion of Ahaz's life. I. INFATUATION . He robbed the palace and even plundered the temple in order to bribe the King of Assyria to help him, instead of going to the house of the Lord as a servant and suppliant of Jehovah, to seek and find his help. That is to say, he committed robbery and sacrilege in order to secure the succour of a man... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:22

This is that King Ahaz . Expunge the words in italic type. Revised Version, this same King Ahaz. But the most literal rendering will be the most forcible: He, the King Ahaz. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:16

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:20

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:22

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