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2 Chronicles 28:5

in 2 Chronicles 28

So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

KJV

Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 28

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The two battles here mentioned, one with Rezin (king of Syria), and the other with Pekah (king of Israel) are additions to the narrative of the writer of Kings (marginal reference “g”). The events of the Syro-Israelite war were probably spread over several years.

This site's exposition

under every green tree

on 2 Chronicles 28:4-6

The high places, hills and green trees of verse 4 spread the idolatry across the land before the military disasters begin. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel both defeat Ahaz in verses 5 and 6, and Chronicles supplies the casualty count Kings never gives, a hundred and twenty thousand valiant men slain by Pekah in one day. The narrator states the cause plainly, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers, so the reader is not left to guess why a two-front defeat fell on a king 2 Kings 16 sums up in one clause about a failed siege.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Never was such bloody work made among them since they were a kingdom, and by Israelites too. Ahaz walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and the king of Israel was the instrument God made use of for his punishment. It is just with God to make those our plagues whom we make our patterns or make ourselves partners with in sin.
Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria,.... Whose name was Rezin, 2Ki 16:5, though that is an after expedition to this, which is there related.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria - For the better understanding of these passages, the reader is requested to refer to what has been advanced in the notes on the sixteenth chapter of 2Ki 16:5, etc.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֜הוּand he gave him

    vaiyitenehuH54142011 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹהָיו֮God his

    ʾelohavH4302601 times

  • בְּיַ֣דin [the] hand of

    beyadH30271618 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • אֲרָם֒Aram

    ʾaramH758143 times

  • וַיַּ֨כּוּ־and they defeated

    vaiyaku-H5221499 times

  • ב֔וֹ<in> him

    vo

  • וַיִּשְׁבּ֤וּand they took captive

    vaiyishbuH761747 times

  • מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙from him

    mimenuH44801188 times

  • שִׁבְיָ֣הa group of captives

    shivyahH76339 times

  • גְדוֹלָ֔הlarge

    gedolahH1419526 times

  • וַיָּבִ֖יאוּand they brought [them]

    vaiyaviuH9352568 times

  • דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂקDamascus

    darmasekH183445 times

  • וְ֠גַםand also

    vegamH1571769 times

  • בְּיַד־in [the] hand of

    beyad-H30271618 times

  • מֶ֤לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • נִתָּ֔ןhe was given

    nitanH54142011 times

  • וַיַּךְ־and he defeated

    vaiyakh-H5221499 times

  • בּ֖וֹ<in> him

    bo

  • מַכָּ֥הa defeat

    makahH434748 times

  • גְדוֹלָֽה׃ סgreat

    gedolahH1419526 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Judges 2:14

    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:20

      So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

    • Psalms 106:40–42

      So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

    • Deuteronomy 31:17–18

      On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…

    • Joshua 7:12–13

      This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be…

  • Through

    Isaiah 7:1

    Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 15:37

      (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

    • 2 Kings 16:1

      In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 24:24

    Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 22:8

      So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.