"Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father."
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Verse 2 Kings 16:2. _TWENTY YEARS OLD_ WAS _AHAZ_] Here is another
considerable difficulty in the chronology. Ahaz was but _twenty years_
old when he began to reign, and he died after he had reigned...
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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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TWENTY YEARS OLD... SIXTEEN. There is no reason for concluding that
"there must be an error in one of the passages" (viz. 2 Kings 16:2 and
2 Kings 18:2), for Ahaz begins in 622 and reigns till 616. As...
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_and did_[R.V. HE DID] _not_that _which_was _right_ This negative form
of statement has not occurred in the account of any previous king of
Judah. The offences of Ahaz were exceptional....
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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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_TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAZ WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND REIGNED SIXTEEN
YEARS IN JERUSALEM, AND DID NOT THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF
THE LORD HIS GOD, LIKE DAVID HIS FATHER._
Twenty years old...
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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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XVI.
THE REIGN OF AHAZ.
(Comp. 2 Chronicles 28)
(2) TWENTY YEARS OLD. — The number should probably be _twenty -and-
five_, according to the LXX., Syriac, and Arabic of 2 Chronicles 28:1.
Otherwise,...
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בֶּן ־עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ אָחָ֣ז בְּ
מָלְכֹ֔ו וְ שֵׁשׁ ־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה
מָלַ֖ךְ בִּ ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְ...
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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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SEEKING HELP FROM WRONG SOURCES
2 Kings 16:1
Ahaz was one of the most wicked kings of Judah. He not only passed his
children through the lines of fire, but seems to have burned some of
them, 2 Chron...
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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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When he, Joatham, "had begun," c\'9cpisset. (Haydock) --- Thus Junius
evades the following difficulty. (Du Hamel) --- Sixteen, consequently
he died when he was 36 years old. As Ezechias was 25 when he...
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What an awful account both the histories of Judah and Israel furnish!
the succession of the kings, for the most part, is but a succession of
evil. Idolatry, during the reign of Ahaz, seems to have bee...
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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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TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAZ WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND REIGNED SIXTEEN
YEARS IN JERUSALEM,.... The same number of years his father did:
AND DID NOT THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD GOD, L...
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Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right in the
sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
Ver. 2. _When h...
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_Ahaz did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord_ Contrary
to what might have been expected, considering the good education
which, doubtless, Jotham, his pious father, gave him, and the
exc...
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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 CALLS UPON ASSYRIA FOR HELP...
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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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1-9 Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn
them, will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God. The
sin was its own punishment. It is common for those who bring
th...
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TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAZ WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN: of the difficulty
hence arising, SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 18:2", to which it more properly
belongs....
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2 Kings 16:2 Ahaz H271 twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 king H4427
(H8800) reigned H4427 (H8804) sixteen H8337 H6240 years H8141
Jerusalem H3389 did H6213 (H8804) right H3477 sight H5869 LORD H3068...
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DETAILS OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF AHAZ'S REIGN AND HIS BEHAVIOUR AND
ACTIONS IN THE EYES OF YHWH (2 KINGS 16:1).
Ahaz was twenty years old when he commenced his co-regency with his
father, and his sole...
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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 16:1 HE DID NOT DO WHAT WAS RIGHT. Under
Jotham’s son AHAZ, Judah returns to officially sanctioned idolatry.
The HIGH PLACES become centers of Canaanite religion (see 1 Kings
1...
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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 11:4; 1 Kings 15:3; 1 Kings 3:14; 1 Kings 9:4; 2 Chronicles
17:3; 2 Chronicles 29:2; 2 Chronicles 34:2; 2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Kings
14:3;...