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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Chronicles 28:5 - 28:5
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the Lord ... delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria ... he was also delivered into the hand of the King of Israel - These verses, without alluding to the formation of a confederacy between the Syrian and Israelitish kings to invade the kingdom of Judah, or relating the commencement of the war in the close of Jotham’s reign (2Ki 15:37), give the issue only of some battles that were fought in the early part of the campaign.
delivered him ... smote him ... he was also delivered - that is, his army, for Ahaz was not personally included in the number either of the slain or the captives. The slaughter of one hundred twenty thousand in one day was a terrible calamity, which, it is (2Ch 28:6) expressly said, was inflicted as a judgment on Judah, “because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.” Among the slain were some persons of distinction: