2 Chronicles 28:20
New International Version
Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help.

New Living Translation
So when King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria arrived, he attacked Ahaz instead of helping him.

English Standard Version
So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

King James Bible
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

New King James Version
Also Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him and distressed him, and did not assist him.

New American Standard Bible
So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

NASB 1995
So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

NASB 1977
So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and distressed him instead of strengthening him.

Amplified Bible
So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and harassed him instead of strengthening and supporting him.

Christian Standard Bible
Then King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came against Ahaz; he oppressed him and did not give him support.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against Ahaz; he oppressed him and did not give him support.

American Standard Version
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And TeglathPalsar King of Assyria came against him, and he encamped against him and he inflicted great suffering on him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there came against him Thalgaphellasar king of Assyria, and he afflicted him.

Contemporary English Version
So Tiglath Pileser came to Judah, but instead of helping, he made things worse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought, against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance.

English Revised Version
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
King Tillegath Pilneser of Assyria attacked Ahaz. Instead of strengthening Ahaz, Tillegath Pilneser made trouble for him.

Good News Translation
The Assyrian emperor, instead of helping Ahaz, opposed him and caused him trouble.

International Standard Version
King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria attacked Ahaz and, instead of helping him, attacked him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Literal Standard Version
And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur comes to him, and does distress him, and has not strengthened him,

Majority Standard Bible
Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

New American Bible
Tilgath-pilneser, king of Assyria, did indeed come to him, but to oppress him rather than to lend strength.

NET Bible
King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.

New Revised Standard Version
So King Tilgath-pilneser of Assyria came against him, and oppressed him instead of strengthening him.

New Heart English Bible
Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but did not strengthen him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

World English Bible
Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur cometh in unto him, and doth distress him, and hath not strengthened him,

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Context
The Idolatry of Ahaz
19For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD. 20 Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him. 21Although Ahaz had taken a portion from the house of the LORD, from the royal palace, and from the princes and had presented it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:6
and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah was a leader of the Reubenites.

1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.

2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: "Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:17
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah--He will bring the king of Assyria."

Jeremiah 2:36
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

Ezekiel 16:28
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.


Treasury of Scripture

And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

A.

2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:7-10
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser 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…

Tiglath-pilsesr

1 Chronicles 5:26
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

distressed him

2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Isaiah 7:20
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 30:3,16
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion…

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Afflicted Asshur Assyria Cause Distress Distressed Help Instead Pilneser Strength Strengthen Strengthened Strengthening Support Tiglath-Pileser Tilgath Tilgathpilneser Tilgath-Pilneser Til'gath-Pilne'ser Tillegath-Pilneser Trouble Troubled
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Afflicted Asshur Assyria Cause Distress Distressed Help Instead Pilneser Strength Strengthen Strengthened Strengthening Support Tiglath-Pileser Tilgath Tilgathpilneser Tilgath-Pilneser Til'gath-Pilne'ser Tillegath-Pilneser Trouble Troubled
2 Chronicles 28
1. Ahaz, reigning wickedly, is greatly afflicted by the Syrians.
6. Judah, being captivated by the Israelites, is sent home by the counsel of Oded.
16. Ahaz sending for aid to Assyria, is not helped thereby,
22. In his distress he grows more idolatrous
26. He dying, Hezekiah succeeds him














(20) Tilgath-pilneser (Heb., Pilne'eser). In 2 Kings more correctly called Tiglath-pileser (Pil'eser). (See Note on 1Chronicles 5:26.) According to the As syrian Eponym Canon, Tiglath-pileser II. came to the throne B.C. 745, and marched westward against Damascus and Israel, B.C. 734. The importance of these dates for the chronology of the period is obvious.

Came unto him.--Comp. the more detailed narrative in 2Kings 16:7-10; and see Note on 2Chronicles 28:16. Tiglath was induced by the message and present of Ahaz to undertake a campaign in the west; he captured Damascus, slew Rezin, and transported the population of the city to Kir (Kings, l.c.). After this, "king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria" (2Kings 16:10). The chronicler in the words before us, is estimating the results of this expedition as they affected the interests of Judah. At the prayer of Ahaz the Assyrian had indeed "come to him"; but not with any purpose of strengthening the southern kingdom. Glad of a pretext for interference in the affairs of the west, the ambitious usurper was simply bent on the extension of his own empire; and when the more powerful states of Syria and Israel lay at his feet, he naturally proceeded to require a most unequivocal acknowledgment of vassalage from Ahaz. He thus "distressed" or oppressed him by reducing his kingdom to a mere dependency of Assyria, besides impoverishing him of all his treasure, which Ahaz had sent as the price of this ruinous help.

Distressed him, but strengthened him not.--This is correct. A possible rendering is: "and besieged him, and conquered him not"; but the context is against it. (The word chazaq, "strengthened," everywhere else means to be strong, or, to prevail. LXX. omits the last words, rendering the whole ??? ???????? ?????. Syriac and Arabic, "besieged him." The Vulg. has: "et afflixit eum, et nullo resistente vastavit." That Judah now became tributary to Assyria is evident from 2Kings 18:7; 2Kings 18:14; 2Kings 18:20. . . .

Verse 20. - Tilgath-Pilneser (see 1 Chronicles 5:6, 26; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:10, our parallel. See our notes in full on 1 Chronicles 5:6, 26). Gesenius dates his reign as King of Assyria as B.C. 753-734; others as about B.C. 747-728. Distressed him, but strengthened him not. This is in our writer's usual deeper moral and religious vein, and was no doubt most true. For all Ahaz paid and bribed out of the sacrilegiously employed treasure of the temple, out of the depreciating and partial dismantling of "the house of the king," and out of the begged contributions or taxes extortionately wrung "of the princes" (see the succinct account of next verse, and compare the parallel in its vers. 8, 18), he bought a master for himself, servitude, tributariness, and the humiliation of disgrace itself. The temporary relief he obtained (and which the writer of Chronicles in no way means to deny) from one enemy rivetted round his neck the yoke of another and greater. And worse than this, he secured in his own heart the greatest adversary of all - a restless, implacable foe, which ever goaded him on to worse folly and deeper sin.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Tiglath-pileser
פִּלְנְאֶ֖סֶר (pil·nə·’e·ser)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8407: Tiglath-pileser -- an Assyrian king

king
מֶ֣לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Assyria
אַשּׁ֑וּר (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 804: Ashshur

came
וַיָּבֹ֣א (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to Ahaz
עָלָ֔יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

but afflicted
וַיָּ֥צַר (way·yā·ṣar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6696: To confine, bind, besiege

him
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

rather than
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

strengthening him.
חֲזָקֽוֹ׃ (ḥă·zā·qōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer


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