2 Chronicles 28:1 BSB

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

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ASV

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father;

KJV

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign,.... These verses are much the same with 2Ki 16:2, 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 Jdg 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, 2Ki 16:3, 2Ki 16:4.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This chapter is supplemental in character, The writer seems to assume that the narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is known, and is mainly anxious to add points which the author of that narrative has omitted.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This prince, discarding the principles and example of his excellent father, early betrayed a strong bias to idolatry. He ruled with an arbitrary and absolute authority, and not as a theocratic sovereign: he not only forsook the temple of God, but embraced first the symbolic worship established in the sister kingdom, and afterwards the gross idolatry practised by the Canaanites.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֶּן־	ben-	[was] a son of	H1121 →
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
שָׁנָה֙	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
אָחָ֣ז	'a.Chaz	Ahaz	H271 →
בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ	be.ma.le.Kho	when became king he	H4427 →
וְשֵׁשׁ־	ve.shesh-	and six-	H8337 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה	'es.Reh	teen	H6240 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
מָלַ֖ךְ	ma.Lakh	he reigned	H4427 →
בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	bi.ru.sha.Lim	in Jerusalem	H3389 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
עָשָׂ֧ה	'a.Sah	he did	H6213 →
הַיָּשָׁ֛ר	hai.ya.Shar	the right	H3477 →
בְּעֵינֵ֥י	be.'ei.Nei	in [the] eyes of	H5869 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כְּדָוִ֥יד	ke.da.Vid	like David	H1732 →
אָבִֽיו׃	'a.Viv	ancestor his	H1 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 17:3
Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek out the Baals,
leads to
- 2 Kings 22:2
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
- Isaiah 41:10
  Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand…
- 2 Timothy 4:22
  The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
- Genesis 39:2–3
  And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.
- Genesis 39:21
  the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
Through
Micah 1:1
This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
leads to
- Jeremiah 26:18
  “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a…
- Isaiah 1:1
  This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Through
1 Chronicles 3:13
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:1
  In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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06About 2 Chronicles

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