2 Chronicles 28:1

2 Chronicles 28:1-4 (2 Kings 16:1-4). Ahaz succeeds and practises Idolatry

1. Ahaz The full form of the name is Jehoahaz, the "Ja-u-ḥa-zi" of an inscription of Tiglath-pileser III.

twenty years old As he died sixteen years later leaving a son of twenty-five(2 Chronicles 29:1), the reading of Pesh. "twenty-five years old" is more suitable and may be right, but the coincidence would be strange if three kings in succession ascended the throne at twenty-five years of age (cp. 2 Chronicles 27:1 and 2 Chronicles 29:1).

he did notthat whichwas right It is not said of Ahaz as of Manasseh, "he did that which was evil" (2 Chronicles 33:2).