2 Chronicles 28:16
28:16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king 1 of Assyria for help.
2 Chronicles 28:20-21
28:20 King Tiglath-pileser
2 of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.
3
28:21 Ahaz gathered riches
4 from the
Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.
1 tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.
2 tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser.
3 tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”
4 tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).