2 Reis 16:3

3 mas andou no caminho dos reis de Israel, e até fez passar pelo fogo o seu filho, segundo as abominações dos gentios que o Senhor lançara fora de diante dos filhos de Israel.

2 Reis 16:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 16:3

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel.
&c.] Worshipping the calves as they did; which, as it was contrary to the religious sentiments in which he was educated, so against his political interest, which was the only, or at least the principal thing, which swayed with the kings of Israel to continue that idolatry:

yea, and made his son to pass through the fire;
between two fires to Molech, by way of lustration; which might be true of Hezekiah his son, and others of his sons, for he had more he burnt with fire, as appears from ( 2 Chronicles 28:3 ) , both ways were used in that sort of idolatry, (See Gill on Leviticus 18:21),

according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out
from before the children of Israel;
the old Canaanites; so the Carthaginians, a colony of the Phoenicians, used in time of calamity to offer human sacrifices, and even their children, to appease their deities ^F12. Theodoret says, he had seen in some cities, in his time, piles kindled once a year, over which not only boys, but men, would leap, and infants were carried by their mothers through the flames; which seemed to be an expiation or purgation, and which he takes to be the same with the sin of Ahaz.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Justin. e Trogo, Hist. l. 18. c. 6. Curt. Hist. l. 4. c. 3. Pescennius Festus apud Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 21.

2 Reis 16:3 In-Context

1 No ano dezessete de Peca, filho de Remalia começou a reinar Acaz, filho de Jotão, rei de Judá.

2 Tinha Acaz vinte anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém; e não fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor seu Deus, como tinha feito Davi, seu pai,

3 mas andou no caminho dos reis de Israel, e até fez passar pelo fogo o seu filho, segundo as abominações dos gentios que o Senhor lançara fora de diante dos filhos de Israel.

4 Também oferecia sacrifícios e queimava incenso nos altos e nos outeiros, como também debaixo de toda árvore frondosa.

5 Então subiu Rezim, rei da Síria, com Peca, filho de Remalias, rei de Israel, contra Jerusalém, para lhe fazer guerra; e cercaram a Acaz, porém não puderam vencê-lo.