Verse 2 Chronicles 28:6. A hundred and twenty thousand] It is very probable that there is a mistake in this number. It is hardly possible that a hundred and twenty thousand men could have been slain in one day; yet all the versions and MSS. agree in this number. The whole people seem to have been given up into the hands of their enemies.
The fearful loss here described may have been due to a complete defeat followed by panic....
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
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...
PEKAH THE SON OF HEMALIAH. Compare 2 Kings 15:27 and Isaiah 7. As Pekah ends three years before Ahaz begins, this must have taken place between 632 and 629 B.C. VALIANT MEN. sons of valour....
_an hundred and twenty thousand_ i.e. more than a third of the host as reckoned in 2 Chronicles 26:13. which were _all_ R.V. ALL OF THEM. _the Lord God_ R.V. THE LORD, THE GOD. "The LORD" stands here...
5 7 (cp. 2 Kings 16:5-9; Isaiah 7:1-9). The Syro-Ephraimite War The Chronicler describes the war from a different point of view from that taken in 2 Kin. In the latter the failure of the allies to ta...
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...
_FOR PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH SLEW IN JUDAH AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN ONE DAY, WHICH WERE ALL VALIANT MEN; BECAUSE THEY HAD FORSAKEN THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on this...
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...
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
FOR. — _And, i.e.,_ so. PEKAH... SLEW IN JUDAH AN HUNDRED... IN ONE DAY. — Details of what is generally stated in the last sentence of 2 Chronicles 28:5. The totals of slain and of captives (2 Chronic...
וַ יַּהֲרֹג֩ פֶּ֨קַח בֶּן ־רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ בִּֽ...
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
SMITTEN FOR FORSAKING THE LORD 2 Chronicles 28:1 The reign of Ahaz was marked by terrible and rapid degeneration. He not only restored idolatry and offered his children to Moloch, but as the difficul...
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...
For (c) Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. (c) Who was king of I...
Both Syrians and Israelites shall become instruments in the hand of God when the Lord will punish Judah. And in the private afflictions of God's people the severity of our trials is doubly increased w...
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...
FOR PEKAH SON OF REMALIAH,.... Who was at this time king of Israel: SLEW IN JUDAH AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN ONE DAY, which were all VALIANT MEN; a great slaughter to be made at one time, and...
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. Ver. 6. _For Pekah the so...
_Pekah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day _ Never was such bloody work made among them before, since they were a nation, and that by Israelites too! The kingdom of Israel was not s...
_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
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,...
For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, in a slaughter which was a terrible calamity, WHICH WERE ALL VALIANT MEN, the flower of the nation, BECAUSE THE...
AHAZ DEFEATED BY THE SYRIANS AND BY ISRAEL...
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...
VALIANT MEN: _ Heb._ sons of valour...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 28:6 Pekah H6492 son H1121 Remaliah H7425 killed H2026 (H8799) hundred H3967 twenty H6242 thousand...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:1. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: for...
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...
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...
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...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 28:5 See 2 Kings 16:5 and Isaiah 7:1. The attacks by...
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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 13:17; 2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 15:37;...
Forsaken — Ahaz walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and God chose the king of Israel for his scourge: it is just with God, to make them a plague to us, whom we have made our patterns, or partne...