2Ki 16, 1Ch 3:13, Isa 1:1, 7:1-12, Hos 1:1, Mic 1:1, Mat 1:9 | TSK | STEP | Ahaz's wicked reign. Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them. Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, diverts the brazen altar to his own devotions. He spoils the temple. Hezekiah succeeds him. seventeenth. Ahaz.

Damascus. Heb. Dammesek. Kir.Josephus informs us that this place was in Upper Media; and it is clear that it must be understood of some city or country in the dominions of the king of Assyria. It is highly probable that it was the country on the banks of the river [Kuros,] Cyrus, or Kyrus, now called Kur, or Kura; and we find cities called Cyropolis, Cyrena, and Carine, mentioned by writers as lying in these parts, and a part of Media, called Syromedia, as it is thought, from the Syrians who were carried captive thither.

Isa 22:6; Am 9:7

slew Rezin.

Isa 7:16; 9:11

saw an altar.

De 12:30; 2Ch 28:23-25; Jer 10:2; Eze 23:16,17; Ro 12:2; 1Pe 1:18

the pattern.

Ex 24:4; 39:43; 1Ch 28:11,12,19; Ps 106:39; Eze 43:8,11; Mt 15:6,9

built an altar.

1Ki 21:11-13; 2Ch 26:17,18; Jer 23:11; Eze 22:26; Da 3:7; Ho 4:6

Ho 5:11; Mal 2:7-9; Ga 1:10

Urijah.

Isa 8:2

approached.

1Ki 13:1; 2Ch 26:16-19; 28:23,25

offered thereon.

Nu 18:4-7

he burnt.

Le 1:1-3:16

of his peace-offerings. Heb. of the peace-offerings whichwere his.

the brasen.

Ex 40:6,29; 2Ch 1:5; 4:1; Mt 23:35

the altar.

10-12

the morning.

3:20; Ex 29:39-41; Nu 28:2-10; Da 9:21,27; 11:31; 12:11

the king's burnt.

Le 4:13-26; 2Sa 6:17,18; 1Ki 3:4; 8:64; 2Ch 7:4,5; 29:21-24,32,35

Eze 46:4-7,12-14

for me to enquire by.

18:4; Ge 44:5; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 2:6; Ho 4:12

11; Ac 4:19; 5:29; 1Th 2:4; Jude 1:11

A.M. 3265. B.C. 739. cut off.

2Ch 28:24; 29:19

borders.

1Ki 7:23,27-39; 2Ch 4:14

sea.

25:13-16; 1Ki 7:23-26; 2Ch 4:15; Jer 52:20

the covert.There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship.

11:5; 1Ki 10:5; Eze 46:2

A.M. 3262-3278. B.C. 742-726.

15:6,7,36,38; 20:20,21; 1Ki 14:29

A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. buried.

21:18,26; 2Ch 28:27

Hezekiah.

18:1; 1Ch 3:13; 2Ch 29:1; Isa 1:1; Ho 1:1; Mic 1:1; Mt 1:9

Ezekias.

1 Chronicles 3:13

Ahaz.

2Ki 16:1; 2Ch 28:1-8; Mt 1:9

Achaz. Hezekiah.

2Ki 18:1; 2Ch 29:1; Mt 1:9

Ezekias. Manasseh.

2Ki 21:1; 2Ch 33:1; Mt 1:10

Manasses.

Isaiah 1:1

1 Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion.

5 He laments her judgments.

10 He upbraids their whole service.

16 He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threatenings.

21 Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments.

25 He promises grace;

28 and threatens destruction to the wicked.

vision.

21:2; Nu 12:6; 24:4,16; 2Ch 32:32; Ps 89:19; Jer 23:16; Na 1:1

Hab 2:2; Mt 17:9; Ac 10:17; 26:19; 2Co 12:1

saw.

2:1; 13:1; 2Pe 1:21

the days.

6:1; 2Ch 26:1-32:33; Ho 1:1; Am 1:1; Mic 1:1

Isaiah 7:1-12

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

Moreover, etc. Heb. and the Lord added to speak.

1:5,13; 8:5; 10:20; Ho 13:2; *marg:

a sign.