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2 Chronicles 28:5
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3 He burned incense in athe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned bhis children in the cfire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had dcast out before the children of Israel.  
4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the1 high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.  

Syria and Israel Defeat Judah

5 Therefore athe Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They bdefeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to Damascus. Then he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.  
6 For aPekah the son of Remaliah killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all valiant men, bbecause they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.  
7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer over the house, and Elkanah who was second to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their abrethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters; and they also took away much1 spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Chronicles 28:5-7

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 (II Kings 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 (II Chronicles 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:


 
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