Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 28:20-21
2 Chronicles 28:20-21. Tilgath-pilneser came and distressed him By quartering the Assyrian soldiers upon his country, by growing insolent and imperious, and creating him a great deal of vexation, and by proving as a broken reed, which not only fails him that leans upon it, but pierces his hand. Or, straitened him, (as יצר , jatsar, rather signifies,) namely, by robbing him of his treasures. For Ahaz took away a portion, &c. He pillaged the house of God, and the king’s house, and... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 28:16-19
2 Chronicles 28:16-19. 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 the singular, either because he was a great king, a king of kings, or because Ahaz sent to divers of his princes also, who may be called kings in a more general signification of the word. Ahaz found his own kingdom weakened and made naked, and he could not put any confidence in God, and therefore was at a vast expense to... read more