2Ch 28:2
28:2 For {a} he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and
     made also molten images for {b} Baalim.

     (a) He was an idolater like them.
     (b) As the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are as
         patrons (as were these Baalim) so have they others who
         are inferior and represent the great idols.

2Ch 28:6
28:6 For {c} Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred
     and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant
     men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their
     fathers.

     (c) Who was king of Israel.

2Ch 28:8
28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
     brethren {d} two hundred thousand, women, sons, and
     daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and
     brought the spoil to Samaria.

     (d) Thus by the just judgment of God, Israel destroyed
         Judah.

2Ch 28:9
28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded:
     and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and
     said unto them, Behold, {e} because the LORD God of your
     fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into
     your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth
     up unto heaven.

     (e) For they thought they had overcome them by their own
         valiantness, and did not consider that God had
         delivered them into their hands, because Judah had
         offended him.

2Ch 28:10
28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
      Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are
      there] not with you, even with you, {f} sins against the
      LORD your God?

      (f) May not God also punish you for your sins as he has
          done these men for theirs, seeing that yours are
          greater?

2Ch 28:12
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of {g} Ephraim,
      Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
      Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa
      the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from
      the war,

      (g) Which tribe was now greatest and had most authority.

2Ch 28:13
28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives
      hither: for whereas we have {h} offended against the LORD
      [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our
      trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce
      wrath against Israel.

      (h) God will not allow this sin which we commit against
          him, to go unpunished.

2Ch 28:15
28:15 And the men which were {i} expressed by name rose up, and
      took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that
      were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them,
      and gave them to eat and to drink, and {k} anointed them,
      and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought
      them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their {l}
      brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

      (i) Whose name were rehearsed before, @2Ch 28:12.
      (k) Either for their wounds or weariness.
      (l) To them of the tribe of Judah.

2Ch 28:16
28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the {m} kings of
      Assyria to help him.

      (m) To Tiglath Pileser and those kings who were under his
          dominion, @2Ki 16:7.

2Ch 28:19
28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of {n}
      Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore
      against the LORD.

      (n) He means Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and
          sought help from the infidels.  \\See Geneva (l)
          "2Ch 15:17"\\ for when Judah was called Israel.

2Ch 28:23
28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which {o}
      smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of
      Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them,
      that they may {p} help me. But they were the ruin of him,
      and of all Israel.

      (o) As he falsely supposed.
      (p) Thus the wicked measure God's favour by prosperity and
          adversity: for if idolaters prosper, they make their
          idols gods, not considering that God often punishes
          them whom he loves and gives his enemies good success
          for a time whom afterward he will destroy.

2Ch 28:27
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
      the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not
      into the {q} sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and
      Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

      (q) They did not bury him in the city of David, where the
          sepulchres of the kings were.



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