2 Chronicles 28:16
in 2 Chronicles 28At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
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At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
KJV
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 28
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe kings of Assyria to help him - Instead of מלכי malchey; Kings; the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, one MS., and the parallel place, 2Ki 16:7, have מלך melek, King, in the singular number. This king was Tiglath-pileser, as we learn from the second book of Kings.
This site's exposition
unto the kings of Assyria to help him
on 2 Chronicles 28:16-18
Ahaz answers his losses by sending to the kings of Assyria for help, the same appeal 2 Kings 16:7 records with Ahaz's own vassal words, I am thy servant and thy son; Chronicles drops that language and widens the picture of the collapse it caused instead. Edom strikes again, as in Jehoshaphat's day, and the Philistines take whole cities of the low country and the south, Beth-shemesh, Ajalon, Gederoth, Shocho and Timnah among them, a raid list Kings does not carry at all. Judah loses ground on every border at once while its king negotiates away the treasury.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
); for he found his own kingdom weakened and made naked, and he could not put any confidence in God, and therefore was at a vast expense to get an interest in the king of Assyria.
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At that time did King Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him. To Tiglathpileser, and his son, see 2Ki 16:7, and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read in the singular, and so the Targum.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria--"kings," the plural for the singular, which is found in many ancient versions. "At that time," refers to the period of Ahaz' great distress, when, after a succession of defeats, he retreated within the walls of Jerusalem.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And the men who were mentioned by name arose above (verse 12). Who were they? Those men who were of the heads of the sons of Ephraim: Azariah the son of Jehohanan and his colleagues.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּעֵ֣ת | baet | at the time | H6256 → | 296 times |
| הַהִ֗יא | hahi' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| שָׁלַ֞ח | shalach | he sent | H7971 → | 845 times |
| הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אָחָ֛ז | ʾachaz | Ahaz | H271 → | 42 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| מַלְכֵ֥י | malkhei | [the] kings of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַשּׁ֖וּר | ʾashur | Assyria | H804 → | 151 times |
| לַעְזֹ֥ר | la'zor | to help | H5826 → | 81 times |
| לֽוֹ׃ | lo | <to> him |
בָּעֵ֣תat the time
baetH6256 →296 times
הַהִ֗יא<the> that
hahi'H1931 →1879 times
שָׁלַ֞חhe sent
shalachH7971 →845 times
הַמֶּ֧לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
אָחָ֛זAhaz
ʾachazH271 →42 times
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
מַלְכֵ֥י[the] kings of
malkheiH4428 →2525 times
אַשּׁ֖וּרAssyria
ʾashurH804 →151 times
לַעְזֹ֥רto help
la'zorH5826 →81 times
לֽוֹ׃<to> him
lo
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 7:17The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 8:7–8
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Isaiah 10:5–6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Nehemiah 9:32
So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders,…
- 1 Kings 12:16–19
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your…
- 2 Chronicles 32:1–33
After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
- Isaiah 8:7–8
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.