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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
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Verse 7. Son, vassal, or under thy protection. Calmet.—Save me. Achaz sinned by this placing his confidence in man, after the prophet had given him such assurance from the Lord. Menochius.—He has soon reason to repent of having brought this proud ally into his dominions, as he proved a great scourge; (2 Chronicles 28:20) no less than the Saxons did to the ancient Britons.
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