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2 Kings 16:1-7

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Judah's King Ahaz

1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
2 Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king; he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God like his ancestor David
3 but walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even made his son pass through the fire,[a] imitating the abominations of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.[b]
4 He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.[c]
5 Then Aram's King Rezin and Israel's King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him.
6 At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and expelled the Judahites from Elath. Then the Arameans came to Elath, and they live there until today.[d]
7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. March up and save me from the power of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me."
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2 Kings 16:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 16

This chapter contains the reign of Ahaz only, relates his idolatry, 2Ki 16:1-4 his hiring the king of Assyria with the treasure of the temple, and his own, to assist him against the kings of Israel and Syria, who besieged him, 2Ki 16:5-9, his seeing the altar of an idol at Damascus, the fashion of which he took, and ordered one like it to be built at Jerusalem, 2Ki 16:10-16, his defacing and removing some things in the temple, 2Ki 16:17,18, and the chapter is concluded with his death and burial, 2Ki 16:19,20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Either a Canaanite cult practice or child sacrifice
  • [b]. 2 Kg 21:6; Dt 18:10; 2 Ch 33:6
  • [c]. 2 Ch 28:1-4
  • [d]. 2 Ch 28:5-6; Isa 7:1-9
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