2 Chronicles 28:24

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ At that time did King Ahaz sende vnto the Kings of Asshur, to helpe him. ¹⁶At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help. ¹⁶ At that time did king Achaz send to the kings of Ashshur to help him. ¹⁶At 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. ¹⁶ At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help. ¹⁶At that time King Ahaz sent word to the king of Assyria [to ask him] for help. ¹⁶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. ¹⁶Some 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. ¹⁶ It was at that time that King Achaz sent to the kings of Ashur to help him. ¹⁶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

Bible Verse Review
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cut in pieces: 2 Kings 16:17, 2 Kings 16:18, 2 Kings 25:13-17

shut up: 2 Chronicles 29:3, 2 Chronicles 29:7

he made: 2 Chronicles 33:3-5, Jeremiah 2:28, Hosea 12:11, Acts 17:16, Acts 17:23

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 29:19 - all the vessels 2 Chronicles 30:14 - altars Nehemiah 6:10 - let us shut Ezekiel 16:16 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God,.... And converted them to his own use, sold them, or melted the gold and silver, of which they were, and made money of them, his treasures being exhausted:

and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord: that the people might not come and worship there, but on the high places he made:

and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem; that the priests might sacrifice there, and not in the temple.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare 2 Kings 16:17 note. The temple-worship was suspended, the lamps put out, and the doors shut, to prevent the priests from entering. The Jews still celebrate a yearly fast in commemoration of this time of affliction.

Altars - As the one altar for sacrifice, which alone the Law allowed, symbolized the doctrine of one God, so these many altars spoke unmistakeably of the all-embracing polytheism affected by Ahaz.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 28:24. Shut up the doors — He caused the Divine worship to be totally suspended; and they continued shut till the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah, one of whose first acts was to reopen them, and thus to restore the Divine worship, 2 Chronicles 29:3.