2 Crônicas 28:5-Esdras NVIPT

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 2 Kings 16:0, 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 consequences (2 Chronicles 28:1-8); release of captives (2 Chronicles 28:9-15); Assyrian help sought (2 Chronicles 28:16-21); continued trespass and distress (2 Chronicles 28:22-25); end of A. (2 Chronicles 28:26-27).2 Chronicles 28:1-8.—Idolatry of A. and its consequences. 2 Chronicles 28:2.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

By Chuck SmithShall 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 years old when he began to reign ( 2 Chronicles 28:1 ),And he is an extremely wicked person. And it is really during his reign that the kingdom sinks to a lower level spiritually than it ever has. And this begins the final downward trend. There are few respites. Hezekiah, his son, was a very good... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 28:1-27

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 arms of Moloch till they were consumed, and so it is explained in Ezekiel 16:20-21. Others made their children pass between two fires, to dedicate them to Moloch. Hence it appears that Ahaz burnt one of his sons, and dedicated all the others by making them pass between the fires. The Talmud has... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:5

2Ch 28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. Ver. 5. Wherefore the Lord his God, ] i.e., That should have been his God, and would have been too, had he been oughts [as he ought]. Into the hand of the king of Syria, ] i.e., Of Rezin, whom God... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Chronicles 28:5

his God: 2 Chronicles 36:5, Exodus 20:2, Exodus 20:3 delivered him: 2 Chronicles 24:24, 2 Chronicles 33:11, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Judges 2:14, 2 Kings 16:5, 2 Kings 16:6, Isaiah 7:1, Isaiah 7:6 Damascus: Heb. Darmesek Reciprocal: Numbers 31:9 - General 1 Samuel 4:10 - a very great 2 Samuel 24:14 - let me not 2 Kings 16:9 - went up 2 Kings 17:20 - delivered 2 Kings 19:4 - the remnant 2 Chronicles 25:22 - put to the worse 2 Chronicles 28:9 - because the Lord God 2 Chronicles 28:10 - the Lord 2... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Chronicles 28:5

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.His God — God was his God, tho' not by 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. read more