Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria,.... Whose name was Rezin, Kg2 16:5, though that is an after expedition to this, which is there related. The Lord is called…
Barnes' Notes
The two battles here mentioned, one with Rezin (king of Syria), and the other with Pekah (king of Israel) are additions to the narrative of the writer of Kings (marginal reference “g”). The events of…
Adam Clarke
Delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria - For the better understanding of these passages, the reader is requested to refer to what has been advanced in the notes on the sixteenth chapter of…
Never surely had a man greater opportunity of doing well than Ahaz had, finding things in a good posture, the kingdom rich and strong and religion established; and yet here we have him in these few…
5 7 (cp. 2Ki 16:5-9; Isa 7:1-9). The Syro-Ephraimite War
The Chronicler describes the war from a different point of view from that taken in 2 Kin. In the latter the failure of the allies to take…
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