2 Kings 16 Footnotes
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16:2 Ahaz reigned sixteen years until 715 BC. His official reign was sixteen years with four years coregency with his father Jotham.
16:3 The first recorded human sacrifice by a Judean kingdom; his idolatry reaches a new low in Judah’s history.
16:7 Ahaz did this against the Prophet Isaiah’s counsel (Is 7:1-10).
16:9 It was Assyria’s standard policy to deport conquered peoples so that they would not continue to be a source of rebellion. Aram (Syria) was no longer a political power.