This chapter is supplemental in character, The writer seems to assume that the narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is known, and is mainly anxious to add points which the author of that narrative has omitted. read more
Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim, i. e as representatives of the different forms or characters of the chief Phoenician deity. read more
Compare the 2 Kings 16:3 note. read more
He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2 Kings 16:4. read more
2 Chronicles 28:1-4. He did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord Nay, he did a great deal that was wrong, very wrong, and that toward God, toward his own soul, and toward his people. He walked in the way of the revolted Israelites, and the devoted Canaanites; made molten images and worshipped them, contrary to the second commandment; nay, he made them for Baalim, contrary to the first. He forsook the temple of the Lord, and sacrificed, and burned incense on the hills, and... read more
A.M. 3263. B.C. 741. Ahaz reigns ill, 2 Chronicles 28:1-4 . Is smitten by the Syrians and Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:5-8 ; who send back the captives they had taken, 2 Chronicles 28:9-15 . Ahaz sends for help to the king of Assyria, but in vain, 2 Chronicles 28:16-21 . Yet he continues in idolatry, 2 Chronicles 28:22-25 ; and dies, 2Ch 28:26 , 2 Chronicles 28:27 . read more
Prosperity followed by disaster (25:1-28:27)Succeeding kings of Israel are passed over in silence (2 Kings 13:1-25). Judah was to have nothing to do with the northern kingdom, not even to the hiring of Israelite soldiers. Amaziah took the advice, and was rewarded with victory in a battle against Edom. But the victory, instead of increasing his dependence on God, gave him a feeling of independence. He turned from God and worshipped idols. The ungodly northern kingdom then became God’s instrument... read more
twenty years . . . sixteen years. Yet his son Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he died (2 Chronicles 29:1 ). See note on 2 Kings 16:1 . when he: i.e. when he (Jotham). Compare Jehoiakim and Jehoachin (2 Chronicles 36:9 ; 2 Kings 21:0 not . . . like. Nor like his own father Jotham, or his son Hezekiah. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . read more
For. He outdid the kings of Israel: compare 2 Kings 16:3 , 2 Kings 16:4 , which brought forth the prophecies of Isaiah, Micah, Nahurn, and others. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:3
Burnt incense … Hinnom . The sin of Solomon ( 1 Kings 11:7 , 1 Kings 11:8 ) is reproduced. For the valley of the son of Hinnom , which curved round the south-west and west of Jerusalem ( Ge Ben-Hinnom ), see Conder's 'Handbook,' ch. 7. pp. 330-332. Burnt his children (see Le 2 Chronicles 18:21 ); but there cannot be any doubt that Ahaz's practice here stated was an incident of the Moloch-superstition and horrible cruelty (see the parallel in its 2 Chronicles 28:3 , 2... read more