Verse 5
Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria ,.... Whose name was Rezin, 2 Kings 16:5 , though that is an after expedition to this, which is there related. The Lord is called the God of Ahaz, because he was so of right; he had dominion over him, and ought to have been worshipped by him; and, besides, he was so by virtue of the national covenant between God and the people Ahaz was king of; and moreover, Ahaz professed he was his God, though in an hypocritical manner, and he forsook the true worship of him:
and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus ; whereas in a later expedition, related in 2 Kings 16:5 , they did not succeed:
and he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel ; whose name was Pekah:
who smote him with a great slaughter ; as is next related.
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