Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 28:23

23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him : and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruine of him and of all Israel.

Or, which had smitten him formerly, i. e. had enabled their Worshippers, the Syrians, to smite him, as he fondly imagined: which yet he saw confuted, having now found by experience that they could not save them from the Assy[illegible: 1+ letters]ian Power.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪