2 Chronicles 28:16

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.

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
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.

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;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria for help.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶At 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. ²²But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry! ²⁶The rest of Ahaz's infamous life, all that he did from start to finish, is written in the Royal Annals of the Kings of Judah and Israel. When Ahaz died, they buried him in Jerusalem, but he was not honored with a burial in the cemetery of the kings. His son Hezekiah was the next king.

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

Exodus 3:5
God said, "Don't come any closer. Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground."

Joshua 5:15
God 's army commander ordered Joshua, "Take your sandals off your feet. The place you are standing is holy." Joshua did it.

Psalms 68:35
A terrible beauty, O God, streams from your sanctuary. It's Israel's strong God! He gives power and might to his people! O you, his people—bless God!

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.