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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time, sent King Ahaz unto the kings 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.
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.
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

16 At that time, sent King Ahaz unto the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again had, the Edomites, come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives; 18 and, the Philistines, had spread themselves out against the cities of the lowland and of the south, pertaining to Judah, and had captured Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth, and Soco with its villages, and Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo, with its villages, - and dwelt there. 19 For Yahweh had brought Judah low, because of Ahaz king of Israel, - for he had given the rein in Judah, and, been grievously unfaithful, with Yahweh. 20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, came against him, - and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king, and the rulers, - and gave unto the king of Assyria, but he helped him not. 22 And, in the time of his distress, he yet further acted unfaithfully with Yahweh, - he, King Ahaz! 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus who had smitten him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, unto them, will I sacrifice, that they may help me. But, they, served to seduce him and all Israel. 24 And Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, and brake away the fittings of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh, - and made for himself altars at every corner in Jerusalem; 25 and, in every several city of Judah, made he high places, for burning incense unto other gods, - and provoked Yahweh, God of his fathers.

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 may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee, - that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.
Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob hearkened unto his father and unto his mother, - and took his journey to Padan-aram.
Exodus 3:5
And he said - Do not draw nigh hither, - put off thy sandals from thy feet, for, the place whereon thou art standing is holy ground.
Exodus 15:11
Who is, like unto thee, Majestic in holiness, - To be revered in praises, Doing a marvellous thing?
Joshua 5:15
Then said the prince of the host of Yahweh unto Joshua - Slip off thy sandals from thy feet, for, as for the place whereon thou art standing, holy, it is. And Joshua did so.
Job 9:11
Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.
Job 33:14
For, in one way, GOD may speak, - and, in a second way, one may not heed it: -
Psalms 68:35
As for the GOD of Israel, he, is giving strength and abundant might to the people. Blessed be God!
Isaiah 8:13
Yahweh of hosts, him, shall ye hallow, - And let, him, be your fear, and let, him inspire you with awe;

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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