Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
8. to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing ] R.V. to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and an hissing.
to trouble ] Better as R.V. mg., to be a terror (or “cause of trembling”). The judgement on Israel fills the surrounding nations with trembling for themselves. The rendering of R.V. text “tossed to and fro” is inferior because the Heb. word describes “trembling” and not “motion from place to place.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He hath delivered them to … hissing – See 1Ki 9:8 note. It was an expression which Hezekiah might naturally use, for it had occurred in a prophecy of Micah Mic 6:16, his contemporary and monitor Jer 26:18-19, which was probably uttered toward the close of the reign of Ahaz. In Jeremiah the phrase becomes common (marginal references).
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
2Ch 29:8
Wherefore . . . the Lord . . . hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and an hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
The results of sinning
It is easier to see than to foresee the results of sinning. If a young man wont foresee the results of an intemperate or a licentious life, those who observe him will, sooner or later, see with their eyes the worst that he was warned of. If a business man wont foresee the results of a dishonest course, others will see it, by and by, in his character and reputation. The future looks fair to most evil doers at the beginning of their career. It is s pity that they do not more commonly consider at the start what a tossing to and fro, what an astonishment, what a hissing, they are sure to be delivered to in the sight of those who watch them, if they go on in the path which now opens attractively before them. (H. Clay Trumbull.)
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Verse 8. He hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment] He probably refers here chiefly to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites in which a hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners; see the preceding chapter, 2Ch 28:6; 2Ch 28:8.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
To astonishment and to hissing, i.e. to such calamities as all that see and hear of shall be astonished at, and hiss at those who by their own sin and folly have brought such miseries upon themselves. See Poole “1Ki 9:8“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8, 9. Wherefore the wrath of theLord was upon Judah and JerusalemThis pious king had thediscernment to ascribe all the national calamities that had befallenthe kingdom to the true cause, namely, apostasy from God. The countryhad been laid waste by successive wars of invasion, and its resourcesdrained. Many families mourned members of their household stillsuffering the miseries of foreign captivity; all their formerprosperity and glory had fled; and to what was this painful andhumiliating state of affairs to be traced, but to the manifestjudgment of God upon the kingdom for its sins?
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon. Judah and Jerusalem,…. As appeared, by suffering the Syrians, and Israelites, and Edomites, and Philistines, to come upon them, and distress them, as the history of the preceding chapter shows:
and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes; such desolation and destruction were made among them, as not only threw them into a stupor, that they knew not what to do, but were amazing to all their neighbours, and caused them to hiss at them, which they could not but be sensible of.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) The wrath . . . was (i.e., fell) upon Judah.The phrase of 2Ch. 24:18. (Comp. 2Ch. 19:2; 2Ch. 19:10.)
Delivered them to trouble . . .Rather, made them a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing. The language is Deuteronomic. (Comp. Deu. 28:25; Deu. 28:37 : Thou shalt become a horror . . . an astonishment. Jer. 25:9; Jer. 25:18 : I will make them an astonishment and a hissing, et al.)
As ye see with your (own) eyes.For ye behold the disastrous results of the invasions of Aram and Israel, of Edom and the Philistines, and of the appeal to Assyria (2 Chronicles 28).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8. The wrath of the Lord was upon Judah The afflictions which are mentioned in this verse and the following were those which Judah suffered under the reign of Ahaz, and which are described in the previous chapter.
To astonishment An object of such great ruin as to astonish beholders.
To hissing An object of scornful derision.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ch 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Ver. 8. And he hath delivered them to trouble. ] Heb., To commotion, so that they are scattered hither and thither, ut fit incursionibus Turcicis, as it falleth out wherever the great Turk setteth his foot.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
was = came.
trouble = commotion.
as = according as.
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Wherefore: 2Ch 24:18, 2Ch 34:24, 2Ch 34:25, 2Ch 36:14-16, Deu 28:15-20
he hath delivered: It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners. See 2Ch 28:6-8.
trouble: Heb. commotion, Deu 28:25
to astonishment: Lev 26:32, Deu 28:59, 1Ki 9:8, Jer 18:15, Jer 18:16, Jer 19:8, Jer 25:9, Jer 25:18, Jer 29:18
Reciprocal: 2Ch 7:21 – astonishment 2Ch 30:7 – as Jer 51:37 – an hissing Mic 6:16 – that Mal 1:5 – your
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 29:8-9. He hath delivered them to trouble to astonishment, and to hissing To such calamities as all that see and hear of them shall be astonished at, and hiss at those who, by their own sin and folly, have brought such miseries upon themselves. When we are under the rebukes of Gods providence, it is good for us to inquire whether we have not neglected Gods ordinances, and whether that be not the controversy he has with us. Our wives are in captivity Though they were presently released, 2Ch 28:5; 2Ch 28:14-15.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
29:8 {d} Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
(d) He shows that the contempt of religion is the cause of all God’s plagues.