2 Chronicles 28

2 Chronicles 28:1

AHaz] The history of Ahaz is also recorded, 2 King. 16. 2, &c.

2 Chronicles 28:2

Baalim] See on 1 Kings 16:31. and 1 Kings 3:18.

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burnt incense] Or, offered sacrifices. See on 2 King. 6. 32.

his children in the fire] Leviticus 18:21.

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high places] See on 1 Kings 3:4.

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king of Syria] Rezin. 2 Kings 16:5.

they] Rezins army.

Damascus] Heb. Darmesek.

a great slaughter] This hath reference to the history following.

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Pekah] 2 Kings 16:5.

valiant men] Heb. sons of valour.

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the kings son] Ahaz the king of Judah his son.

next to the king] Heb. the second to the king.

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their brethren] Men of Judah, who came from the same stock that the men of Israel did, and believed in the same God. See v. 10.

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Obed] See chap. 15. 1.

reacheth up to heaven] This is an hyperbolicall speech; it implieth the uttermost extremity of a thing; for heaven is the highest part of the world, Genesis 11:4. Deuteronomy 9:1. Ezra 9:6.

2 Chronicles 28:10

are there not with you] Are not ye conscious to your selves of such sins as may provoke God to inflict a like judgement on you?

2 Chronicles 28:11

brethren] Vers. 8.

is upon you] Or, will fall on you, if ye adde such cruelty to the heap of your other sins.

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against them] Against the souldiers that brought the captives, to keep them from going further.

2 Chronicles 28:13

hither] Into Samaria.

there is fierce wrath] We have cause to fear that some heavie judgement hangeth over our head.

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by name] Verse 12.

anointed] To refresh them that were weary, according to the custom of those places or for their wounds, Luke 10:34.

all the feeble] By reason of tendernesse, age, travell, wounds, sicknesse, or the like.

to Jericho] At the borders of Judah.

the city of palm-trees] Deuteronomy 34:3.

their brethren] The people of Judah.

2 Chronicles 28:16

the kings of Assyria] Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 16. 9.) and the other kings under him. Or, by a synechodoche, the plurall number is put for the singular, as Matthew 27:44. See on chap. 32. 4.

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again] Or, also the Edomites, as well as the Israelites.

captives] Heb. a captivity.

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low-countrey] Where the pastures and cattell were.

Beth-shemesh] See on 2 Kings 14:11.

Ajalon] See 1 Chronicles 6:69. 2 Chronicles 11:10.

Gederoth] See Joshua 15:41.

Shocho] See 1 Samuel 17:1.

Timnah] See Joshua 15:10; Joshua 15:57.

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Israel] See on chap. 21. 2.

naked] Destitute of all divine favour and succour, as Exodus 32:25. Or, he withdrew in Judah the worship of God; or, drew Jvdah from the worship of God, Exodus 5:4.

and he transgressed sore] Or, even by transgessing, he transgressed.

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Tilgath-pilneser] See on 2 Kings 16:10.

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this is that king Ahaz] Isaiah 1:5. Of all men, this man is to be marked for an obstinate sinner, who was no whit wrought upon by afflictions, but even under judgements continued to sin, and thereby shewed an irreclaimable disposition. Or, he was still the same. Thus this word is used, Psalms 102. 27.

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he sacrificed] See on 2 Kings 16:12.

Damascus] Heb. Darmesek.

which smote him] This may have reference to the gods which in his opinion smote him, or to the people of Damascus, v. 5. His folly was not much unlike his great grand-fathers, chap. 25. 14.

help them] So Judges 16:23. Habakkuk 1:11.

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gathered] To give to the king of Assyria, v. 21. 2 King. 16. 8, 17.

every corner] Where ways met, as Matthew 6:5.

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to burn] Or, to offer.

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the city] See 2 Kings 16:20.