2 Chronicles 28:18-27

18 ¹And the Philistines had made raids on ²the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco ³with 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 ⁴Judah act sinfully^[a] and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.

20 So ⁵Tiglath-pileser^[b] king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

21 ⁶For 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 ⁷he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, ⁸"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.

24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and ⁹cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself ¹⁰altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

25 In every city of Judah he made high places to ¹¹make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.

26 ¹²Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for ¹³they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 28:18-27 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 13

1. [Ezekiel 16:27, 57]
2. See Joshua 15:33-36
3. [Numbers 21:25]
4. See 2 Chronicles 21:2
5. [2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7]
6. 2 Kings 16:8, 9
7. [2 Chronicles 25:14]
8. [Jeremiah 44:17, 18]
9. [2 Kings 16:17]
10. [2 Chronicles 30:14]
11. ver. 3
12. For ver. 26, 27, see 2 Kings 16:19, 20
13. [2 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Chronicles 24:25]

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or wildly
[b]. Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser

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