2 Chronicles 28:16-27

Compromise with Assyria

16 ¹At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria for help.

17 ²For again the Edomites had come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.

18 ³The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the Negev of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with 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 ⁴Israel, for he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was very unfaithful to the LORD.

20 So ⁵Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

21 ⁶Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.

22 Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz ⁷became yet more unfaithful to the LORD.

23 ⁸For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, "⁹Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they became the downfall of him and all Israel.

24 Moreover, when Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, he ¹⁰cut the utensils of the house of God in pieces; and he ¹¹closed the doors of the house of the LORD and ¹²made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to anger.

26 ¹³Now 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 ¹⁴So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of ¹⁵Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 28:16-27 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

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 16:7
• 2. Obad 10, 14
• 3. Ezekiel 16:57
• 4. 2 Chronicles 21:2
• 5. 1 Chronicles 5:26
• 6. 2 Kings 16:8, 9
• 7. Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 5:3; Revelation 16:11
• 8. 2 Chronicles 25:14
• 9. Jeremiah 44:17, 18
• 10. 2 Kings 16:17
• 11. 2 Chronicles 29:7
• 12. 2 Chronicles 30:14; 2 Chronicles 33:3-5
• 13. 2 Kings 16:19, 20
• 14. 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 24:25; Isaiah 14:28
• 15. 2 Chronicles 21:2

Footnotes

• [a]. Ancient versions read "king"
• [b]. Heb "shephelah"
• [c]. Lit "smitten"
• [d]. Lit "stumbling"