For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh. Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
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At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there. For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh. Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
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For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.
Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
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For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
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For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had cast away restraint in Judah, and acted treacherously against the LORD.
And Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
For Ahaz stripped the house of the LORD, and the house of the king and the princes, and gave thereof unto the king of Assyria; but it helped him not.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv19, 21 He meaneth Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and…
He meaneth Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help of the infidels. Read of Israel taken for Judah, 2 Chron. 15:17.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv19–21 2Ch 28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because…
2Ch 28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
Ver. 19. For he made Judah naked.] He stripped them of the sincere service of God - which is the beauty and bulwark of a nation - and might have been called, as our Henry III was, regni dilapidator, the kingdom’s bane and break-neck.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv19, 21 He made Judah naked; taking away their ornament and…
He made Judah naked; taking away their ornament and their defence and strength, to wit, their treasures, which he sent to the Assyrian to no purpose; their frontier towns, and other strong holds, which by his folly and wickedness were lost; their religion, and the Divine protection, which was their great and only firm security, which by his sins he forfeited. See Poole "Exo 32:25".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv19–21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the…
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes,.... A part out of the treasures of the temple, and a part out of his own treasures, and another which he levied upon his nobles:
and gave it unto the king of Assyria; sent it to him as a present, to engage him on his side, and assist him against his enemies, Kg2 16:10.
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but he helped him not; See Gill on Ch2 28:20.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv19–20 Low - As high as they were before in…
Low - As high as they were before in wealth and power. They that will not humble themselves under the word of God will be humbled by his judgments. Naked - Taking away their ornament and their defense and strength, namely their treasures, which he sent to the Assyrian to no purpose; their frontier towns, and other strong holds, which by his folly and wickedness were lost; their religion, and the Divine protection, which was their great and only firm security.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v21 Verse 21. But he helped him not.] He did…
Verse 21. But he helped him not.] He did him no ultimate service. 2Kg 16:9.
After ver. 15, the 23d, 24th, and 25th verses are introduced before the 16th, in the Syriac and Arabic, and the 22d verse is wholly wanting in both, though some of the expressions may be found in the twenty-first verse.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v20 2Ch 28:20-21. Tilgath-pilneser came and distressed him — By…
2Ch 28:20-21. Tilgath-pilneser came and distressed him — By quartering the Assyrian soldiers upon his country, by growing insolent and imperious, and creating him a great deal of vexation, and by proving as a broken reed, which not only fails him that leans upon it, but pierces his hand. Or, straitened him, (as יצר, jatsar, rather signifies,) namely, by robbing him of his treasures. For Ahaz took away a portion, &c. — He pillaged the house of God, and the king’s house, and pressed the princes for money to hire these foreign forces into his service. For though he had conformed to the idolatry of these his heathen neighbours, they did not value or love him the more for that; nor did his compliance, by which he lost God, gain them; nor could he make any interest with them but by his money. Thus it is generally found that wicked men have no real affection for those that revolt to them, nor care to do them a kindness. But he strengthened him not — A most emphatical expression: for though he weakened his present enemy, the Syrian, as is related 2Ki 16:9, taking Damascus, and carrying the people away captive; yet really, all things considered, he did not strengthen Ahaz and his kingdom. He did not help him to recover the cities which the Philistines had taken from him; nor did he lend him any forces, or enable him to recruit his own. On the contrary, he weakened him; for by removing the Syrian, who, though a troublesome neighbour, was a kind of bulwark to him, and by destroying Samaria, he opened a way for the invasion of his country with more facility, as happened in the very next reign.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv19–20 Ahaz king of Israel - An instance of the…
Ahaz king of Israel - An instance of the lax use of the word “Israel” 2Ch 12:6; 2Ch 21:2. It is simply equivalent to “king of Judah.”
He made Judah naked - literally, “he had caused licentiousness in Judah” - i. e. he had allowed Judah to break loose from all restraints of true religion, and to turn to any idolatry that they preferred 2Ch 28:2-4. In this and in the following expression there is implied an apostasy resembling the unfaithfulness of a wife.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv19–21 Of Juda. Heb. "Israel." But the Sept. have "Juda."…
Of Juda. Heb. "Israel." But the Sept. have "Juda." H. --- The names are often used promiscuously. C. --- For he. Sept. "because he or it had apostatised from the Lord." --- Script. Prot. "he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore," &c. Thus were the idolatrous Israelites exposed to shame and misery, after they had adored the golden calf, Ex. xxxii. 25. H. --- In the Bacchanalian riots, the pagans threw off their garments, to shew that they trusted entirely in their false gods. T. --- Achaz had plunged his country in distress, (C.) both of soul and body, (H.) by his scandalous deportment. C. --- Of all help, is added by way of explanation; (T.) as God would no longer rescue his rebellious people from the hands of the enemy. H.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v20 Tilgath-pilneser . . . distressed him, but strengthened him…
Tilgath-pilneser . . . distressed him, but strengthened him not--that is, notwithstanding the temporary relief which Tilgath-pilneser afforded him by the conquest of Damascus and the slaughter of Rezin (Kg2 16:9), little advantage resulted from it, for Tilgath-pilneser spent the winter in voluptuous revelry at Damascus; and the connection formed with the Assyrian king was eventually a source of new and greater calamities and humiliation to the kingdom of Judah (Ch2 28:2-3).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–21 19. king of Israel] Cp. 2Ch_11:3 (note).
19. king of Israel] Cp. 2Ch_11:3 (note).
he made Judah naked] R.V. he had dealt wantonly in Judah (mg. “cast away restraint”). Cp. Exo_32:25 (A.V. and R.V.) where the same Heb. verb is twice used.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–21 (19) Ahaz king of Israel.—Most commentators see an irony…
(19) Ahaz king of Israel.—Most commentators see an irony in this expression. But, as has been stated before, the southern kingdom was Israel in the chronicler’s idea; although that of the Ten Tribes was, politically speaking, as much more important, as the cedar of Lebanon was in comparison with the blackthorn growing beside it (2Ch_25:18. See Note on 2Ch_12:6; 2Ch_21:2). (Some Hebrew MSS., and all ancient versions, read “Judah.” Other Hebrew MSS. remark that in seven places “king of Judah” should be read instead of “king of Israel.”)
He made Judah naked.—Rather, he behaved loosely, dealt licentiously in Judah (hiphri’a). The verb is so used here only. (Comp. Exo_5:4, where it is transitive: “Why loose ye the people from their works?”) (LXX. omits, Authorised version follows the Vulg.)
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Transgressed sore.—Done unfaithfulness (1Ch_10:13).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv19–21 Ahaz King of Israel. So Jehoshaphat was called inriphi.…
Ahaz King of Israel. So Jehoshaphat was called inriphi. 2Ch_21:2 "King of Israel. " If these two occasions are not merely cases of the writer"s or of a copyist"s easily imaginable mistake, they must be regarded as naming the king of the chief divided kingdom by the title of the whole kingdom or people. He made Judah naked; Revised Version, had dealt wantonly in Judah; or margin, Revised Version, had cast away restraint in Judah; Hebrew, y.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz…
2Ch_28:19
For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel.
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The sin of Ahaz
I. I would draw attention to some special points in the history of ahaz.
1. The king himself was peculiarly the transgressor.
2. The people also were transgressors.
3. Mark the special sins enumerated in the history.
(1) There was idolatry.
(2) He substituted an altar of a strange pattern for the altar of the Lord God of hosts.
(3) He trusted in an arm of flesh (verses 16 and 21).
(4) He attempted to gain his object by conciliating the false gods and disparaging the true God.
4. Mark the consequences of all this: national desolation and ruin.
II. Let us see how far our present circumstances as a nation are parallel to those here presented.
III. Two practical questions.
1. What can be done with our rulers?
2. What can be done with our people? (J. C. Goodhart, M.A.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v19 Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz
Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz
The metonym "Judah" represents the people of Judah. Yahweh humiliating the people is spoken of as if he physically brought Judah low to the ground. AT: "Yahweh humiliated the people of Judah because of Ahaz" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
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sinned against Yahweh very heavily
Ahaz sinning very much is spoken of as if sin were a very heavy object. AT: "sinned very greatly against Yahweh" (See: Metaphor)
Tiglath-Pileser
This is Tiglath-Pileser III, also known as Pul. (See: How to Translate Names)
troubled him instead of strengthening him
Helping Ahaz against his enemies is spoken of as if it were strengthening Ahaz. AT: "caused him trouble instead of helping him" (See: Metaphor)
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Yahweh
kingdom of Judah
Ahaz
kingdom of Israel
evil
sin
trouble
house of God
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