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John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:20

And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Ver. 20. And Tilgathpilneser.] See 2 Kings 16:10 .

And distressed him, but strengthened him not.] This beast observing the hedge to be low, went over it, making Ahaz his tributary: how else is it said, that Hezekiah rebelled against him? 2Ki 18:7 Many princes have lost what they had, by calling in foreigners to their help. The Romans and Turks got much by this means.

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See also 2 Chronicles 28:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TILGATH-PILNESER - This form of the name is doubly corrupt. See the properly Hebraized form in 2 Kings 15:29. DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT - This statement, and that at the end of 2 Chroni...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 28 THE REIGN OF AHAZ _ 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 28:1)_ 2. The punishment of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:5) 3. The message of Oded and its results (2 Chronicles

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 War two separate campaigns, Ahaz being in turn defea...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TILGATH-PILNESER. Compare 2 Kings 16:10. The accounts in Kings and Chronicles are complementary. See App-56....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Tilgath-pilneser_ i.e. Tiglath-pileser III. Cp. 1 Chronicles 5:6 (note). _came … him not_ Some error in the text is probable here. The Hebrew cannot be rendered as in the A.V., but no satisfactory e...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT— And yet in Exodus 16:9 it is said that he _did help him._ How then can he be said to have _distressed him?_ Very well: for as he came to his assistance agains...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    13. THE REIGN OF AHAZ (Chapter 28) TEXT 2 Chronicles 28:1. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND TILGATH-PILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UNTO HIM, AND DISTRESSED HIM, BUT STRENGTHENED HIM NOT._ Tilgath-pilneser ... distressed him, but strengthened him not - i:e., notwithstanding the temporary...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 Israelites were restored; and how Ahaz in his distress...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DISTRESSED HIM, etc.] The intervention of Assyria not only imposed the burden of tribute upon Judah, but also awoke the jealousy of Egypt, with evil results to the small kingdom placed between the two...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 28 AHAZ – 2 CHRONICLES 28:1-27 V1 Ahaz was 20 years ol

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TILGATH-PILNESER (Heb., _Pilne’èser_). In 2 Kings more correctly called _Tiglath-pileser_ (_Pil’èser_). (See Note on 1 Chronicles 5:26.) According to the As syrian Eponym Canon, Tiglath-pileser II. ca...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֣א עָלָ֔יו תִּלְּגַ֥ת פִּלְנְאֶ֖סֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AND AHAZ 2 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 28:1 AFTER the assassination of Amaziah, all the people of Judah took his son Uzziah, a lad of sixteen, calle

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A WICKED KING'S BLIND FOLLY 2 Chronicles 28:12 This sending of the captives home, clothed, shod, and anointed was a beautiful act, and anticipates the spirit of Christianity. This is the true way of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 including the terrible offering of children to Molo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    And. Heb. and Sept. "And....the king....came against him, and smote him." Hebrew continues, "but strengthened him not" in the end; though he had been invited, (v. 16.; H.) and had actually made a dive...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe the progression of sin when the mind is hardened under its influence. You see Ahaz robs God's house to purchase man's arm against him; sacrificeth to devil's to gain human interest. And thus g...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 THROUGH 31. Jotham, the son of Uzziah, walks uprightly; and he avoids his father's fault; but the people are still corrupt. Nevertheless the faithfulness...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND TILGATHPILNESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UNTO HIM,.... Not to Jerusalem, but to Damascus, where he made a diversion in his favour, and took that city, and where Ahaz met him, 2 Kings 16:9 AND DISTRES...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 broke...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3263. B.C. 741._ Ahaz reigns ill, 2 Chronicles 28:1. Is smitten by the Syrians and Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:5; who send back the captives they had taken, 2 Chronicles 28:9

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ahaz reigning very wickedly, is greatly afflicted by the Syrians. 6 Iudah being captiuated by the Israelites, is sent home by the counsell of Oded the Prophet. 16 Ahaz sending for aide to Assyria,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Tilgathpilneser, king of Assyria, welcoming the opportunity to interfere in the affairs of the nations to the south, CAME UNTO HIM AND DISTRESSED HIM, added to his burdens by oppressing him all th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AHAZ, DISTRESSED BY ASSYRIA, CONTINUES IN HIS WICKEDNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 worshipping in high places, and it seems his influence ov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Chronicles 28:20 Tiglath-Pileser H8407 king H4428 Assyria H804 came H935 (H8799) distressed H6696 (H8799) assist...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 reached the prime of life; he was cut off by God in the ver...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz. War with Rekah. Intercession of Oded. Edomite and Philistine invasion. CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Syrian king, Tiglath-pileser, Zechri, Pekah, Oded. CONCLUSION: If men will not...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 meaning. Sometimes it implies the burning of children in the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CHRONICLES 28:1 Ahaz. The account of Ahaz’s reign (735–715 B.C.) shows how his spiritual unfaithfulness brought Judah to ruin. Yet the dark picture of Judah’s decline is lessened somewhat by its nor...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 28:16 Ahaz appeals to Tiglath-pileser III of ASSYRIA, rather than God, for HELP against the EDOMITES and Ph

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 2 Kings 16, and gives chief events in same order. Narrative fuller in military affairs, yet an omission of two or three facts. Idolatry of A. and its con...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Kings 16:1. There is a great deal gained in this case by addition on the two accounts, however. Our chapter contains the wickedness by idolatry of Ahaz, the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now to II Chronicles, chapter 28. We are now moving into the final stages of the deterioration of this nation prior to its destruction. Ahaz is now the king. He is twenty...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 17:5; Ho

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Distressed — Or, straitened him, by robbing him of his treasures. Strengthened not — A most emphatical expression: for tho' he weakened his present enemy the Syrian, yet all things considered, he did...

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