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7. KING AHAZ AND ASSYRIA
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. King Ahaz and his reign (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Chronicles 28)_
2. The invasion by the two kings (2 Kings 16:5)
3. Ahaz appeals to Assyria (2 Kings 16:7)
4. Ahaz...
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2 KINGS 16. REIGN OF AHAZ. This chapter is assigned to different
sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple,
though it alludes to his apostasy and his wars. The Temple record ...
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URIJAH. Perhaps the Uriah of Isaiah 8:2. His name does not occur in
the list of high priests (1 Chronicles 6:3). Note the emphatic
repetition of "Ahaz the king" and "Urijah the priest"....
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_so Urijah … Damascus_ These words are omitted by the LXX. though
not in all MSS. Perhaps because the preceding clause ends with the
same word as this, the eye of a scribe may have been misled. The pa...
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URIJAH THE PRIEST BUILT AN ALTAR, &C.— It must not be denied, that
the high priest carried his complaisance much too far in obeying the
king's injunction, which he ought to have opposed with all his
i...
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B. THE REIGN OF AHAZ 16:1-20
Considerable attention is devoted to Ahaz because of the religious
significance of his reign. For the first time since the bloody reign
of Athaliah, the Davidic dynasty f...
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_AND URIJAH THE PRIEST BUILT AN ALTAR ACCORDING TO ALL THAT KING AHAZ
HAD SENT FROM DAMASCUS: SO URIJAH THE PRIEST MADE IT AGAINST KING AHAZ
CAME FROM DAMASCUS._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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AHAZ AND ASSYRIA
This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to
Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the
overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria....
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 16
AHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH
V1 Ahaz, Jotham’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. That was in
the 17th year of...
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וַ יִּ֛בֶן אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַ כֹּהֵ֖ן אֶת
־הַ מִּזְבֵּ֑חַ כְּ כֹ֣ל אֲשֶׁר
־שָׁלַח֩ הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ...
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THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ
2 Kings 16:1
"For when we in our wickedness grow hard,
Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors;...
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HIGH-HANDED IDOLATRY
2 Kings 16:10
The calling in of the king of Assyria was fraught with disastrous
consequences. “He distressed him and strengthened him not.” Well
may the Apostle warn us not to b...
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Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the
reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under
Tiglathpileser in his time of difficulty, and this was by deliberat...
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And Urijah the priest built an altar (g) according to all that king
Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against
king Ahaz came from Damascus.
(g) We see that there is no princ...
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_Priest, or pontiff, as no other would have dared to make this
innovation. (Salien) --- He was guilty of a great weakness; as the
altar of Solomon had been so solemnly consecrated by God's presence.
A...
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I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view,
because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety
until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contemplat...
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But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings
13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more
glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17.
Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu
was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of
Jehova...
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AND URIJAH THE PRIEST BUILT AN ALTAR ACCORDING TO ALL THAT KING AHAZ
HAD SENT FROM DAMASCUS,.... Exactly according to the size, form,
figure, and carved work of it, though expressly contrary to the
co...
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And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz
had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king
Ahaz came from Damascus.
Ver. 11. _And Urijah the priest built...
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_And Urijah built an altar_, &c. He complied with the king's command
against his own conscience, and against the express command of that
great God to whom the king and he both were subject. _The pries...
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1 Ahaz his wicked reigne.
5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hireth Tiglath Pileser against
them.
10 Ahaz sending a paterne of an Altar from Damascus to Urijah,
diuerteth the brasen Altar to his ow...
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AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ
(vv.1-4).
Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is
not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was
20 years old when he beg...
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10-16 God's altar had hitherto been kept in its place, and in use; but
Ahaz put another in the room of it. The natural regard of the mind of
man to some sort of religion, is not easily extinguished; b...
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So he complied with the king's command against his own conscience, and
against the express command of that great God, to which the king and
he both were subject. He made haste, and delayed not to do i...
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2 Kings 16:11 Urijah H223 priest H3548 built H1129 (H8799) altar H4196
King H4428 Ahaz H271 sent H7971 (H8804) Damascus H1834 Urijah H223
priest H3548 made H6213 (H8804) King H4428 Ahaz H271 back H935...
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ KING OF JUDAH C. 732/1-716/15 BC. CO-REGENT FROM
744/43 BC.
Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in
Judah's history. Never before in that history had the...
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CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz over Judah. Assyrians take Damascus.
CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Tiglath-pileser, Urijah, Rezin, Pekah.
CONCLUSION: That religion is of no worth which is guided by fancy
instead o...
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2 Kings 16:3. Ahaz _made his son pass through the fire._ It appears
from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a
god by lustrations; that is, by causing him to pass between two...
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_In the seventeenth year of Pekah._
A PEOPLE’S KING AND PRIEST, OR KINGHOOD AND PRIESTHOOD
I. The kinghood.
1. The de-humanising force of false religion. Ahaz was an idolator.
2. The national curs...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 16:10 Ahaz travels to Damascus to meet his
new Assyrian overlord (see note on vv. 7–9). Ahaz is so impressed by
a pagan ALTAR he sees in DAMASCUS that he has a copy of it set u...
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 16:2. TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAB WHEN, &c.—The _Sept._ MS. of
the Vatican, and other MSS., give “_twenty-five_” in the
correspondin...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 16:1
REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION
OF TIGLATH-PILESER AGAINST THEM. RELIGIOUS CHANGES MADE BY AHAZ. HIS
DEATH.
2 KINGS 16:1
_General char...
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Now in the seventeenth year of Pekah, Remaliah or the son of Remaliah,
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign (2 Kings 16:1).
Ahaz the son of Jotham. So you have now an Ahaz reigning. Us...
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1 Kings 21:11; 2 Chronicles 26:17; 2 Chronicles 26:18; Daniel 3:7;
Ezekiel 22:26; Galatians 1:10; Hosea 4:6; Hosea 5:11; Isaiah 8:2;...