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2 Chronicles 28:16

At that same time the people from Edom came again and defeated the people of Judah. The Edomites captured people and took them away as prisoners. So King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria to help him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Armies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jareb;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gad;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   Assyria ;   Jareb ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Amasa;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Hezekiah (2);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Assyria;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Rezin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help.
Hebrew Names Version
At that time did king Achaz send to the kings of Ashshur to help him.
King James Version
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
English Standard Version
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
New Century Version
At that time the Edomites came again and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners. So King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
New English Translation
At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help.
Amplified Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent word to the king of Assyria [to ask him] for help.
New American Standard Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent word to the kings of Assyria for help.
World English Bible
At that time did king Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
At that time did King Ahaz sende vnto the Kings of Asshur, to helpe him.
Legacy Standard Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria for help.
Berean Standard Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
Contemporary English Version
Some time later, the Edomites attacked the eastern part of Judah again and carried away prisoners. And at the same time, the Philistines raided towns in the western foothills and in the Southern Desert. They conquered the towns of Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo, including the villages around them. Then some of the Philistines went to live in these places. Ahaz sent a message to King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria and begged for help.
Complete Jewish Bible
It was at that time that King Achaz sent to the kings of Ashur to help him.
Darby Translation
At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
George Lamsa Translation
At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria to help him,
Good News Translation
The Edomites began to raid Judah again and captured many prisoners, so King Ahaz asked Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, to send help.
Lexham English Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him,
Literal Translation
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the same tyme sent kynge Achas vnto the kynges of Assur, yt they shulde helpe him.
American Standard Version
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
Bible in Basic English
At that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
At that same time did king Ahaz send vnto the kinges of the Assyrians, to haue helpe of them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
King James Version (1611)
At that time did king Ahaz send vnto the kings of Assyria to helpe him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At that time king Achaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, and on this occasion,
English Revised Version
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In that tyme kyng Achaz sente to the kyng of Assiriens, and axide help.
Update Bible Version
At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
Webster's Bible Translation
At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
New King James Version
At the same time King Ahaz sent to the kings 2 Chronicles 28:20).">[fn] of Assyria to help him.
New Living Translation
At that time King Ahaz of Judah asked the king of Assyria for help.
New Life Bible
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
New Revised Standard
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At that time, sent King Ahaz unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking help.
Revised Standard Version
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
Young's Literal Translation
At that time hath king Ahaz sent unto the king of Asshur to give help to him;
THE MESSAGE
At about that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria asking for personal help. The Edomites had come back and given Judah a bad beating, taking off a bunch of captives. Adding insult to injury the Philistines raided the cities in the foothills to the west and the southern desert and captured Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, along with Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages, and moved in, making themselves at home. Arrogant King Ahaz, acting as if he could do without God's help, had unleashed an epidemic of depravity. Judah, brought to its knees by God , was now reduced to begging for a handout. But the king of Assyria, Tiglath-Pileser, wouldn't help—he came instead and humiliated Ahaz even more by attacking and bullying him. Desperate, Ahaz ransacked The Temple of God , the royal palace, and every other place he could think of, scraping together everything he could, and gave it to the king of Assyria—and got nothing in return, not a bit of help.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria for help.

Contextual Overview

16At that same time the people from Edom came again and defeated the people of Judah. The Edomites captured people and took them away as prisoners. So King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria to help him. 18 The Philistines also attacked the towns in the hills and in south Judah. The Philistines captured the towns of Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo. They also captured the villages near these towns. Then the Philistines lived in them. 19 The Lord gave troubles to Judah because King Ahaz of Judah encouraged the people of Judah to sin. He was very unfaithful to the Lord . 20 King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria came and gave Ahaz trouble instead of helping him. 21 Ahaz took some valuable things from the Lord 's Temple and from the king's palace and from the prince's house. Ahaz gave them to the king of Assyria, but that didn't help him. 22 In Ahaz's troubles, he sinned worse and became more unfaithful to the Lord . 23 He offered sacrifices to the gods the people of Damascus worshiped. The people of Damascus had defeated Ahaz. So he thought to himself, "The gods the people of Aram worship helped them. So if I offer sacrifices to them, maybe they will help me also." Ahaz worshiped these gods. In this way he sinned, and he made the people of Israel sin. 24 Ahaz gathered the things from God's Temple and broke them to pieces. Then he closed the doors of the Lord 's Temple. He made altars and put them on every street corner in Jerusalem. 25 In every town in Judah Ahaz made high places for burning incense to worship other gods. Ahaz made the Lord , the God his ancestors obeyed, very angry. 26 Everything else Ahaz did, from the beginning to the end, is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

did king: 2 Kings 16:5-7, Isaiah 7:1-9, Isaiah 7:17

the kings: Instead of malchey, "kings," the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, one manuscript, and the parallel place, have mailech, "king.

Reciprocal: Judges 1:16 - city of palm 2 Kings 15:30 - in the twentieth Isaiah 1:7 - country Isaiah 33:1 - thee that Jeremiah 2:36 - as thou wast Ezekiel 23:12 - upon Hosea 5:10 - remove Hosea 5:13 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 28:4
and that God will bless you and your children the same way he blessed Abraham. And I pray that you will own the land where you live. This is the land God gave to Abraham."
Genesis 28:7
Esau learned that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan Aram.
Exodus 3:5
Then God said, "Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals. You are standing on holy ground.
Exodus 15:11
"Are there any gods like the Lord ? No, there are no gods like you— you are wonderfully holy! You are amazingly powerful! You do great miracles!
Joshua 5:15
The commander of the Lord 's army answered, "Take off your sandals. The place where you are standing is holy." So Joshua obeyed him.
Job 9:11
When he passes by, I cannot see him. He goes right past me, and I don't notice.
Job 33:14
But maybe God does explain what he does but speaks in ways that people don't understand.
Psalms 68:35
God, you are awesome in your Temple! The God of Israel is the one who gives strength and power to his people. Praise God!
Isaiah 8:13
The Lord All-Powerful is the one you should fear. He is the one you should respect. He is the one who should frighten you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At that time did King Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him. To Tiglathpileser, and his son, see 2 Kings 16:7, and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read in the singular, and so the Targum.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 28:16. The kings of Assyria to help him. — Instead of מלכי malchey; KINGS; the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, one MS., and the parallel place, 2 Kings 16:7, have מלך melek, KING, in the singular number. This king was Tiglath-pileser, as we learn from the second book of Kings.


 
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