2Ch 28:1 | Clarke | STEP | Ahaz succeeds his father Jotham, and reigns wickedly for sixteen years, . He restores idolatry in its grossest forms, ; and is delivered Into the hands of the kings of Israel and Syria, . Pekah slays one hundred and twenty thousand Jews in one day, and carries away captive two hundred thousand of the people, whom, at the instance of Oded the prophet, they restore to liberty, and send home, clothed and fed, . Ahaz sends to the king of Assyria for help against the Edomites, Philistines, etc., from whom he receives no effectual succor, . He sins yet more, spoils and shuts up the temple of God, and propagates idolatry throughout the land, . A reference to has acts, his death, and burial, , . Verse 1 Ahaz was twenty years old - For the difficulties in this chronology, see the notes on (note).

2 Chronicles 28:1

Introduction

Ahaz succeeds his father Jotham, and reigns wickedly for sixteen years, 2Chr 28:1. He restores idolatry in its grossest forms, 2Chr 28:2-4; and is delivered Into the hands of the kings of Israel and Syria, 2Chr 28:5. Pekah slays one hundred and twenty thousand Jews in one day, and carries away captive two hundred thousand of the people, whom, at the instance of Oded the prophet, they restore to liberty, and send home, clothed and fed, 2Chr 28:6-15. Ahaz sends to the king of Assyria for help against the Edomites, Philistines, etc., from whom he receives no effectual succor, 2Chr 28:16-21. He sins yet more, spoils and shuts up the temple of God, and propagates idolatry throughout the land, 2Chr 28:22-25. A reference to has acts, his death, and burial, 2Chr 28:26, 2Chr 28:27.

Verse 1

Ahaz was twenty years old - For the difficulties in this chronology, see the notes on 2Kgs 16:2 (note).