2 Chronicles 28 · Verse 16

2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles 28:16, King James Version

2 Chronicles 28:16 in other translations

BSBAt that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
WEBAt that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
ASVAt that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
YLTAt that time hath king Ahaz sent unto the king of Asshur to give help to him;
DARBYAt that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
BBEAt that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria.
WebsterAt that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

What does 2 Chronicles 28:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria--"kings," the plural for the singular, which is found in many ancient versions. "At that time," refers to the period of Ahaz' great distress, when, after a succession of defeats, he retreated within the walls of Jerusalem. Either in the same or a subsequent campaign, the Syrian and Israelitish allies marched there to besiege him (see on 2Ki 16:7). Though delivered from this danger, other enemies infested his dominions both on the south and the west.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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, 2Kgs 16:7, have מלך melek, King, in the singular number. This king was Tiglath-pileser, as we learn from the second book of Kings.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

2 Chronicles 28:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בָּעֵ֣תba.'Etat the timeH6256
הַהִ֗יאha.Hi'<the> thatH1931
שָׁלַ֞חsha.Lachhe sentH7971
הַמֶּ֧לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
אָחָ֛ז'a.ChazAhazH271
עַל\־'al-toH5921
מַלְכֵ֥יmal.Khei[the] kings ofH4428
אַשּׁ֖וּר'a.ShurAssyriaH804
לַעְזֹ֥רla'.Zorto helpH5826
לֽוֹ\׃lo<to> him

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 28:16

  • 2 Kings 16:5-7

    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

  • Isaiah 7:17

    The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

  • Isaiah 7:1-9

    And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
did king.
2Ki 16:5-7; Isa 7:1-9,17
the kings.Instead of {malchey,} "kings," the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, one MS., and the parallel place, have {mailech}, "king."

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 28:15

    And the men which were 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 anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:16

    At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:17

    For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

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2 Chronicles 28:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
En aquel tiempo envió á pedir el rey Achâz á los reyes de Asiria que le ayudasen:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
En ce temps-là, le roi Achaz envoya vers les rois d’Assyrie pour qu’ils l’aident.
German
Elberfelder 1871
In selbiger Zeit sandte der König Ahas zu den Königen von Assyrien, daß sie ihm helfen möchten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tempore illo misit rex Achaz ad regem Assyriorum, postulans auxilium.