2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time did HaMelech Achaz send unto the melachim of Assyria to help him.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And the men which were designated by shemot rose up, and took the prisoners, and with the plunder clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and put balm on them, and carried all the weak of them upon donkeys, and brought them to Yericho, the Ir Temarim, to their achim. Then they returned to Shomron.

17For again the people of Edom had come and attacked Yehudah, and carried away prisoners.

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Cross References

2 Kings 16:5Then Retzin Melech Aram (Syria) and Pekach Ben Remalyahu Melech Yisroel came up to Yerushalayim for milchamah; and they besieged Achaz, but could not overcome him.

Isaiah 7:17Hashem shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the Bais of thy father, yamim such as have not come since the yom when Ephrayim departed from Yehudah: + 7:17 2Kgs 15:29; 16:9 even Melech Ashur (Assyria).

Jeremiah 2:18And now what hast thou to do in the derech Mitzrayim, 1 to drink the waters of the Shichor ([Nile] River)? 1 Or what hast thou to do in the derech Ashur (Assyria), 1 to drink the waters of the Euphrates [River]? 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 28:7-16

The King of Israel Defeats Ahaz. ( b. c. 738.) 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from… Read the whole commentary →

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