June 9, 2008

• The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.10

  The Book of Isaiah

  Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.10

   

   

  Back to Ahaz and his mess. As we see, he’s getting invaded on all sides.

   

  2Ch 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

   

  Philistine = “immigrants”

  Judah= “praised”

  Beth-shemesh = “house of the sun” or “sun-temple”

  Ajalon or Aijalon = “field of deer”

  Gederoth = “walls”

  Shocho or Shochoh or Sochoh or Shoco or Socoh = “bushy”

  Timnath or Timnah or Thimnathah = “portion”

  Gimzo = “fertile in sycamores”

   

  This could read: The “immigrants” also had invaded the cities of the low country and of the south of “praised,” and had taken the “house of the sun” and the “field of deer” and the “walls” and the “bushy” “portion” with the villages thereof, “fertile in sycamores” also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

   

  2Ch 28:19  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

  2Ch 28:20  And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

   

  Distressed:

  1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp

  a) (Qal)

  1) to confine, secure

  2) to shut in, beseige

  3) to shut up, enclose

  2) (Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe

  3) (Qal) to form, fashion, delineate

   

  And all the other words that were adverbs of this word were: besiege, lay siege, distress, bind, adversaries, assault, bags, beset, cast, fashioned, fortify, inclose, bind up.

   

  It’s just amazing how low one will go when they refuse to serve the Lord. This man was already kissing the proverbial butt of this Assyrian king, but he stooped even lower, to outright begging, and then further to groveling, but none of this did him any good, and certainly, it turned the heat up of God’s wrath against him.

   

  2Ch 28:21  For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

  2Ch 28:22  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.

  2Ch 28:23  For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

  2Ch 28:24  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

  2Ch 28:25  And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

   

  Ahaz gave himself up to a life of wickedness and idolatry. 2Ki 16; Isa. 7-9; 16; Isa. 7-9; 2 Chr. 28). Notwithstanding the remonstrances and warnings of Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah, he appealed for help against Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah, king of Israel, who threatened Jerusalem, to Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, to the great injury of his kingdom and his own humilating subjection to the Assyrians (2Ki 16:7,9; 15:29). He also introduced among his people many heathen and idolatrous customs (Isa 8:19; 38:8; 2Ki 23:12). He died at the age of thirty-five years, after reigning sixteen years (B.C. 740-724), and was succeeded by his son Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was “not brought into the sepulchre of the kings.”

   

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