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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

2 Chronicles 28

2 Chronicles 28:1

2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 28 Ahaz reigning ill, 2 CHRONICLES 28:1, is smitten by the Syrians, and by the Israelites, 2 CHRONICLES 28:5, who carry away captives; which, by the advice of a prophet, they return, 2 CHRONICLES 28:8. Ahaz sendeth to the king of Assyria for help against the Philistines and Edom... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:5

THE LORD HIS GOD: God was his God, though not by covenant and grace, and special relation, which Ahaz had renounced, yet by his sovereign dominion over him; for God did not forfeit his right by Ahaz's denying it.... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:9

i.e. In a most high and fierce manner. A usual hyperbole, withal signifying that their rage did cry aloud, and was heard to heaven, from whence it would pull down vengeance upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:16

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 elephant, or, as others think, the crocodile, is called _behemoth_, which signifies _beasts_, JOB 40, because of his vast bulk and eminency above other beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:19

HE MADE JUDAH NAKED; taking away their ornament and their defence and strength, to wit, their treasures, which he sent to the Assyrian to no purpose; their frontier towns, and other strong holds, which by his folly and wickedness were lost; their religion, and the Divine protection, which was their... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:21

DISTRESSED HIM, or, _straitened him_, by robbing him of his treasures. _But he helped him not, but strengthened him not_; a most emphatical expression: for though he weakened his present enemy the Syrian, as is related, 2 KINGS 16:9, yet really, and all things considered, he did not strengthen Ahaz... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:22

That monster and reproach of mankind, that unteachable and incorrigible prince, whom even grievous afflictions made worse, which commonly make men better. This is he whose name deserves to be remembered and detested for ever. Or, _king Ahaz was the same_, no changeling, not a whit better by all the... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 28:23

WHICH SMOTE HIM; or, _which had smitten him formerly_, i.e. had enabled their worshippers, the Syrians, to smite him, as he fondly imagined; which yet he saw confuted, having now found by experience that they could not save them from the Assyrian power.... [ Continue Reading ]

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