Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”
We have here, I. Treacherous Judah under the rebukes of God's providence, and they are very severe. Never was such bloody work made among them since they were a kingdom, and by Israelites too. Ahaz walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and the king of Israel was the instrument God made use of for his punishment.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 28:6-15
Now hear me therefore,.... And not only hear, but be obedient: and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken of your brethren; their women, sons and daughters, even all of them, the whole 200,000: for the fierce wrath of God is upon you; hangs over your heads, and will fall upon you, unless you do this.
2Ch 28:11 After thus quickening the conscience, he calls upon them to send back the prisoners which they had carried away from among their brethren, because the anger of Jahve was upon them. Already in their pitiless butchery of their brethren they had committed a sin which cried to heaven, which challenged God’s anger and His punishments; but by the carrying away of the women...