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2 Chronicles 28:13-23

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13 and said to them, "You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel."
14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
15 And 1the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, 2provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, 3the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
16 4At that time King Ahaz sent to the king[a] of Assyria for help.
17 For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.
18 5And the Philistines had made raids on 6the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco 7with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.
19 For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made 8Judah act sinfully[b] and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.
20 So 9Tiglath-pileser[c] king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
21 10For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

Ahaz's Idolatry

22 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.
23 For 11he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, 12"Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.
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2 Chronicles 28:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 28

This chapter contains the reign of Ahaz, and gives an account of the idolatry he was guilty of, 2Ch 28:1-4, what calamities came upon him and his people, being delivered up into the hands of the kings of Syria and Israel, who slew many, and carried others captives, 2Ch 28:5-8, though they that were taken captive by Israel, at the admonition of a prophet, were sent back again, 2Ch 28:9-15, how also he was distressed by the Edomites and Philistines, and not helped by the king of Assyria, he sent for and made presents to, 2Ch 28:16-21 and yet went into more and greater idolatries, 2Ch 28:22-25, and the chapter is concluded with his death and burial, 2Ch 28:26,27.

These verses are much the same with 2Ki 16:2-4, only in 2Ch 28:2 it is said,

\\he made also molten images for Baalim\\; the several Baals or idols of the nations round about, as well as served Jeroboam's calves; see Jud 2:11, and he is said in 2Ch 28:3,

\\to burn incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom\\; to Molech, the god of the Ammonites, who was worshipped there. \\See Gill on "2Ki 16:2"\\ \\See Gill on "2Ki 16:3"\\ \\See Gill on "2Ki 16:4"\\ 19724-950128-0841-2Ch28.2

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

  • 1. ver. 12; [2 Chronicles 31:19; Numbers 1:17]
  • 2. 2 Kings 6:22; Proverbs 25:21, 22; Romans 12:20
  • 3. Deuteronomy 34:3; Judges 1:16
  • 4. [2 Kings 16:7, 8]
  • 5. [Ezekiel 16:27, 57]
  • 6. See Joshua 15:33-36
  • 7. [Numbers 21:25]
  • 8. See 2 Chronicles 21:2
  • 9. [2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7]
  • 10. 2 Kings 16:8, 9
  • 11. [2 Chronicles 25:14]
  • 12. [Jeremiah 44:17, 18]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Kings 16:7); Hebrew kings
  • [b]. Or wildly
  • [c]. Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser
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