| II Chronicles 28:19
| For the Lord had humbled Juda, because of Achaz, the king of Juda, for he had stript it of all help, and had contemned the Lord.
| Of Juda. Hebrew, "Israel." But the Septuagint have "Juda." (Haydock) --- The names are often used promiscuously. (Calmet) --- For he. Septuagint, "because he or it had apostatised from the Lord." --- Stript. Protestants, "he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore," etc. Thus were the idolatrous Israelites exposed to shame and misery, after they had adored the golden calf, Exodus 32:25. (Haydock) --- In the Bacchanalian riots, the pagans threw off their garments, to shew that they trusted entirely in their false gods. (Tirinus) --- Achaz had plunged his country in distress, (Calmet) both of soul and body, (Haydock) by his scandalous deportment. (Calmet) --- Of all help, is added by way of explanation; (Tirinus) as God would no longer rescue his rebellious people from the hands of the enemy. (Haydock)
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