2-chronicles 28:20
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.
Webster's Revision
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 distressed him, but didn't strengthen him.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
Barnes's 2-chronicles 28:20 Bible Commentary
Tilgath-pilneser - This form of the name is doubly corrupt. See the properly Hebraized form in 2 Kings 15:29.
Distressed him, but strengthened him not - This statement, and that at the end of 2 Chronicles 28:21, is supplemental to, and not contradictory of, 2 Kings 16:9. Here it is the writer's object to note that the material assistance rendered by Tiglath-pileser to Ahab, was no real "help" or "strength," but rather a cause of "distress."
Wesley's 2-chronicles 28:20 Bible Commentary
28:20 Distressed - Or, straitened him, by robbing him of his treasures. Strengthened not - A most emphatical expression: for tho' he weakened his present enemy the Syrian, yet all things considered, he did not strengthen Ahaz and his kingdom, but weaken them; for by removing the Syrian, who, tho' a troublesome neighbour, was a kind of bulwark to him, he smoothed the way for himself, a far more dangerous enemy, as appears in the very next king's reign.
