2Ki 15:32-33, 16:1, 17:1, 2Ch 28:4-6, 16, Isa 7:1-9, 8:6 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3246. B.C. 758. Jotham. Jotham. Uzziah. Azariah.

2 Kings 15:32-33

A.M. 3246. B.C. 758. Jotham.

7; 1Ch 3:12; 2Ch 27:1-9; Mt 1:9

Jotham. Uzziah.

1,7,13,17,23,27; 14:21; 1Ch 3:12

Azariah.

A.M. 3246-3262. B.C. 758-742. Jerusha.

2Ch 27:1

Jerushah.

2 Kings 16:1

1 Ahaz's wicked reign.

5 Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them.

10 Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, diverts the brazen altar to his own devotions.

17 He spoils the temple.

19 Hezekiah succeeds him.

seventeenth.

15:27-30,32,33

Ahaz.

15:38; 2Ch 28:1-4; Isa 1:1; 7:1; Ho 1:1; Mic 1:1

2 Kings 17:1

1 Hoshea's wicked reign.

3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt.

5 Samaria for sinning is led into captivity.

24 The strange nations which were transplanted into Samaria, being plagued with lions, make a mixture of religions.

A.M. 3274. B.C. 730. In the twelfth.In ch. 15:30, this is said to be "the twentieth year of Jotham," which Calmet thus reconciles: "Hosea conspired against Pekah, the 20th year of the reign of this prince, which was the 18th of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the 4th of Ahaz and the 20th of Jotham, Hosea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to ch. 15:30. Finally, the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to ch. 17:1."

Hoshea."After an interregnum, ch. 15:30; 18:9."

2 Chronicles 28:4-6

Le 26:30; De 12:2,3; 2Ki 16:4

his God.

36:5; Ex 20:2,3

delivered him.

24:24; 33:11; 36:17; Jud 2:14; 2Ki 16:5,6; Isa 7:1,6

Damascus. Heb. Darmesek.

Pekah.

2Ki 15:27,37; Isa 7:4,5,9; 9:21

an hundred.

13:17

valiant men. Heb. sons of valour. because.

15:2; De 6:14,15; 28:15,25; 29:24-26; 31:16,17; 32:20; Jos 23:16

Jos 24:20; Isa 1:28; 24:5,6; Jer 2:19; 15:6

2 Chronicles 28:16

did king.

2Ki 16:5-7; Isa 7:1-9,17

the kings.Instead of {malchey,} "kings," the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, one MS., and the parallel place, have {mailech}, "king."

Isaiah 7:1-9

1 Ahaz, being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah.

10 Ahaz, having liberty to choose a sign, and refusing it, hath for a sign, Christ promised.

17 His judgment is prophesied to come by Assyria.

the days.

2Ki 16:1; 2Ch 28:1-6

Rezin.

8:6; 2Ki 15:37; Ps 83:3-5

but could.

4-9; 8:9,10

the house.

13; 6:13; 37:35; 2Sa 7:16; 1Ki 11:32; 12:16; 13:2; Jer 21:12

is confederate with. Heb. resteth on.

17; 11:13; 2Ch 25:10; 28:12; Eze 37:16-19; Ho 12:1

And his heart.

8:12; 37:27; Le 26:36,37; Nu 14:1-3; De 28:65,66; 2Ki 7:6,7

Ps 11:1; 27:1,2; 112:7,8; Pr 28:1; Mt 2:3

Go forth.

Ex 7:15; Jer 19:2,3; 22:1

Shear-jashub. that is, The remnant shall return.

6:13; 10:21; 55:7; Ro 9:27

the end.

36:2; 2Ki 18:17; 20:20

highway. or, causeway.

Take heed.

30:7,15; Ex 14:13,14; 2Ch 20:17; La 3:26

fear not.

8:11-14; 35:4; 41:14; 51:12,13; Mt 10:28; 24:6

neither be faint-hearted. Heb. let not they heart be tender.

De 20:3; 1Sa 17:32

the two tails.

8; 8:4; 2Ki 15:29,30; Am 4:11

Syria.

Ps 2:2; 83:3,4; Na 1:11; Zec 1:15

vex. or, waken. lit. disgust. .

8:10; 10:6-12; 37:29; 46:10,11; Ps 2:4-6; 33:11; 76:10; Pr 21:30

La 3:37; Da 4:35; Ac 4:25-28

For the head.Dr. Jubb transposes the former part of ver. 9, and renders, "Though the head of Syria be Damascus; and the head of Damascus Retzin; and the head of Ephraim be Samaria; and the head of Samaria Remaliah's son; yet within threescore and five years Ephraim shall be broken, that he be no more a people." This renders the passage perfectly clear; and the prophecy received its full accomplishment when Esarhaddon carried away the remains of the ten tribes.

2Sa 8:6

within.

8:4; 17:1-3; 2Ki 17:5-23; Ezr 4:2

that it be not a people. Heb. from a people.

Ho 1:6-10

the head.

1Ki 16:24-29; 2Ki 15:27

If ye, etc. or, ye not believe? it is because ye are notstable.

2Ch 20:20; Ac 27:11,25; Ro 11:20; Heb 11:6; 1Jo 5:10