2 Chronicles 28:1

CHAPTER XXVIII

Ahaz succeeds his father Jotham, and reigns wickedly for

sixteen years, 1.

He restores idolatry in its grossest forms, 2-4;

and is delivered Into the hands of the kings of Israel and

Syria, 5.

Pekah slays one hundred and twenty thousand Jews in one day,

and carries away captive two hundred thousand of the people,

whom, at the instance of Oded the prophet, they restore to

liberty, and send home, clothed and fed, 6-15.

Ahaz sends to the king of Assyria for help against the

Edomites, Philistines, c., from whom he receives no effectual

succour, 16-21.

He sins yet more, spoils and shuts up the temple of God, and

propagates idolatry throughout the land, 22-25.

A reference to has acts, his death, and burial, 26, 27.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVIII

Verse 2 Chronicles 28:1. Ahaz was twenty years old] For the difficulties in this chronology, 2 Kings 16:1.