2 Chronicles 28:21-25 ESV

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:22

22. in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord—This infatuated king surrendered himself to the influence of idolatry and exerted his royal authority to extend it, with the intensity of a passion—with the ignorance and servile fear of a heathen ( :-) and a ruthless defiance of God (see on :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

L. Ahaz ch. 28With the reign of Ahaz the Chronicler introduced a new interest, namely, the prospect of captivity for Judah, which he again called "Israel"-the true Israel-twice in this chapter (2 Chronicles 28:19; 2 Chronicles 28:23).Why did Israel go into captivity? Why did the perfectly obedient Davidic King not appear? Ahaz’s behavior helps explain the reason. The writer selected three major events from Ahaz’s reign: the king’s idolatry (2 Chronicles 28:2-15), his appeal for help to Assyria... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

The Reign of AhazThis 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 appealed to Assyria.This chapter corresponds to 2 Kings 16, but it omits many facts related there, whilst expanding the account of the war with Israel.5. The king of Syria] i.e. Rezin, who, with Pekah of Israel, wished to depose Ahaz: see Isaiah 7.7. Maaseiah, the king’s son] perhaps a son of Jotham... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:21

(21) Took away a portion . . . gave it.—Rather, For Ahaz had despoiled the house of the Lord, and the house of the king and the princes, and had given it. (Comp. 2 Kings 16:8.)The princes—i.e., the great courtiers living in the palace, whose valuables as well as those of Ahaz were ransacked to make up the costly bribe. (Syriac and Arabic, “the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the former kings, and in the rich houses.”)But he helped him not.—And it was not for... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:22

AHAZ ADOPTS THE SYRIAN IDOLATRY, AND CLOSES THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 28:22-25; comp. 2 Kings 16:10-18).(22) In the time of his distress.—At the time when he (Tiglath) oppressed him, i.e., at the time when Ahaz went to Damascus to do homage to the Assyrian monarch (2 Kings 16:10), probably in reluctant obedience to a peremptory mandate.Did he trespass . . . Ahaz.—He dealt yet more unfaithfully towards Jehovah, he, king Ahaz. The subject is emphatically repeated: “he, king Ahaz,” who had already... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:23

(23) For (and) he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus.—The statement of this verse is peculiar to the Chronicle; and the same may be said of the next also. Both here and in the preceding account of the relations of Ahaz to Tiglath-pileser, the writer appears to have drawn upon another source than the book of Kings.Damascus may, perhaps, be put for the Damascenes, though in that case Aram would have been more natural. (Not “at Damascus,” as Thenius renders.)Which smote him.—Did the chronicler... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:24

(24) Gathered together the vessels.—According to some MSS. the Syriac, Arabic, Vulg., and Targum, all the vessels.And cut in pieces the vessels.—Literally, trimmed (qiççaç), i.e., cut off their metal ornaments. The same word is used in 2 Kings 16:17, where it is said, “And king Ahaz cut off the plates of the bases, and removed the laver from upon them, and the sea he took down from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.”And shut up the doors of the house of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:25

(25) And in every several city of Judah he made high places.—Comp. 2 Chronicles 28:2-4.And provoked to anger.—Deuteronomy 32:16. Instead of this 2 Chronicles 28:18 obscurely mentions further changes which Ahaz made in the Temple, “for fear of the king of Assyria." It seems probable that the sacrilege described in 2 Chronicles 28:24 and in 2 Kings 16:17-18, was perpetrated in collecting everything of any value to send to the rapacious Assyrian. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

THE WICKED KINGS2 Chronicles 28:1-27, Etc.THE type of the wicked king is not worked out with any fullness in Chronicles. There are wicked kings, but no one is raised to the "bad eminence" of an evil counterpart to David; there is no anti-David, so to speak, no prototype of antichrist. The story of Ahaz, for instance, is not given at the same length and with the same wealth of detail as that of David. The subject was not so congenial to the kindly heart of the chronicler. He was not imbued with... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

CHAPTER 28 The Reign of Ahaz 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 28:1-4 ) 2. The punishment of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:5-8 ) 3. The message of Oded and its results (2 Chronicles 28:9-15 ) 4. Further punishments of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:16-25 ) 5. Death of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:26-27 ) On Ahaz his wicked reign and apostasy, as well as the war with Syria and the invasion of Judah by Israel, see our annotations on 2 Kings 16:0 . It was at that time that Isaiah ministered in Judah... read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:24

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 28:25

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

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