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2 Kings 16:2-4

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2 Ahaz was 1twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,
3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. 2He even burned his son as an offering,[a]3according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
4 4And he sacrificed and made offerings 5on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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2 Kings 16:2-4 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

Cross References 5

  • 1. For ver. 2-4, see 2 Chronicles 28:1-4
  • 2. [Psalms 106:37, 38]; See Leviticus 18:21
  • 3. 2 Kings 21:2; [Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:9]
  • 4. [2 Kings 14:4]
  • 5. Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or made his son pass through the fire
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