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Verse 2 Kings 16:5. _BUT COULD NOT OVERCOME_ HIM.] It is likely that
this was the time when Isaiah was sent to console Ahaz; (see Isaiah
7:1;) and predicted the death both of Rezin and Pekah, his enem...
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Rezin and Pekah, who had already begun their attacks upon Judaea in
the reign of Jotham 2 Kings 15:37, regarded the accession of a
boy-king, only 16 years of age, as especially favorable to their
proj...
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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 ...
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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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REZIN. Compare Isaiah 7. He and Pekah are the two firebrands of 2
Kings 7:4. The events in verses: 2 Kings 16:5 are said by some to
contradict 2 Chronicl
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_came up_to _Jerusalem to war_ The plans which had been formed in the
reign of Jotham (see 2 Kings 15:37) were now put into execution. And
from Isaiah 7:2 we can see into what agitation the people of...
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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 fa...
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_THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA AND PEKAH SON OF REMALIAH KING OF ISRAEL
CAME UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR: AND THEY BESIEGED AHAZ, BUT COULD NOT
OVERCOME HIM._
Then Rezin ... and Pekah ... came up to Jerusalem...
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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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CAME UP TO JERUSALEM] Pekah's policy was to oppose the Assyrians, and
in conjunction with Rezin he sought to induce Ahaz to join a coalition
against them. Failing to persuade him, they took up arms fo...
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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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THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA ... TO WAR. — This verse agrees almost word
for word with Isaiah 7:1. The _time_ is soon after the accession of
Ahaz. “Jotham, the last of a series of strong and generally
suc...
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אָ֣ז יַעֲלֶ֣ה רְצִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ ־אֲ֠רָם
וּ פֶ֨ק
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ
B.C. 735-715
2 Kings 16:1
"Rimmon, whose delightful seat
Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks
Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.
He also against the House was bold:
A l...
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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 Chroni...
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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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Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came
up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome
(c) [him].
(c) For the Lord preserved the city and his pe...
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Then. In punishment of such enormous crimes, God first delivered Achaz
into the hands of Rasin, (2 Paralipomenon xxviii.; St. Jerome, in
Isaias vii.) and afterwards Phacee destroyed 120,000 in one bat...
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The prophet Isaiah, hath given us an account of this transaction in
the 7th chapter of his prophecy. The Reader will do well, therefore,
to consult the passage in Isaiah's writings. But what I would m...
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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
Jehovah...
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THEN REZIN KING OF SYRIA, AND PEKAH SON OF REMALIAH KING OF ISRAEL,
CAME UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR,.... To fight with Ahaz, moved to it by
the Lord, to chastise Ahaz for his idolatry, 2 Kings 15:37
BUT...
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Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came
up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome
[him].
Ver. 5. _Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah, &c._]...
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_But could not overcome him_ Because God, of his own mere grace,
undertook the protection of Judah, as he promised to do, and
disappointed the designs and hopes of their enemies, Isaiah 7:1. _At
that...
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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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Then Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
who had formed an alliance at the time of Jotham, 2 Kings 15:37, CAME
UP TO JERUSALEM TO WAR; AND THEY BESIEGED AHAZ, BUT COULD N...
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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 bega...
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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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Because God of his own mere grace undertook their protection, as he
promised to do, and disappointed the hopes and design of their
enemies; of which see on ISA 7....
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THE INVASION OF JUDAH BY REZIN KING OF ARAM AND PEKAH KING OF ISRAEL.
JUDAH IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:4).
The gathering threat from Israel and Aram to replace first Jotham, and
then after his death Aha...
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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 they...
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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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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
corresponding...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 16:1
REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION
OF TIGLATH-
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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 11:36; 1 Kings 15:4; 2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Kings 15:37;...
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Could not overcome — Because God of his own mere grace, undertook
his protection, and disappointed the hopes of his enemies....