In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 29. Assyria, at the invitation of Achaz. Calmet. 16:7.—Theglathphalasar is probably the same who is called Ninus the younger, or Thilgam, (Ælian. animal. xii. 21.) by profane writers. He re-established the kingdom of Nineve in part, after the city had been taken, under his father Sardanapalus, by Arbaces, founder of the empire of the Medes, and by Belesus, narbonassar, or Baladan, who reigned at Babylon. Such was the state of the eastern empires at this time. Calmet.—Aion, or Ahion, (3 Kennicott. 15:20) perhaps the Enan of Ezechiel 48:1. Bible.—Moacha, whither Seba had retreatd, 2 Kennicott. 20:14. Hebrew Abel-beth-maacha.—Galaad, comprising all the east of the Jordan. Calmet.—Nephthali, to the north-west. Bible.—Thus the Galileans and Nephthali were transported into Assyria, to repeople it after the late ravages. The tribe in Galaad were fixed on the river Gozan, 1 Chronicles 5:26.