To meet, and congratulate the king on his victory, and perhaps to divert him from proceeding any father. (Calmet) --- But it was too late, ver. 7. (Haydock) --- The same year Phacee hastened to defend his dominions, but was slain by Osee. (Salien, the year before Christ 757.)
Verse 2 Kings 16:10. _AHAZ WENT TO DAMASCUS_] He had received so much help on the defeat of Rezin, that he went to Damascus to meet the king of Assyria, and render him thanks. _AHAZ SENT TO URIJAH T...
AND SAW AN ALTAR - Rather, “The altar,” i. e. an Assyrian altar, and connected with that formal recognition of the Assyrian deities which the Ninevite monarchs appear to have required of all the natio...
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 ...
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 ...
AHAZ. Called Jehoahaz in Tiglath-pileser _'_. great triumphal inscriptions. The first syllable of his name dropped in Scripture, as he was unworthy of it. TO MEET: and do him honour. Hence the solemn...
Ahaz goes to Damascus. Finds a heathen altar, the like of which he sets up in the court of the temple. Further desecration of the temple furniture (2 Chronicles 28:22-25) 10. _king Ahaz went_to _Damas...
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...
_AND KING AHAZ WENT TO DAMASCUS TO MEET TIGLATH-PILESER KING OF ASSYRIA, AND SAW AN ALTAR THAT WAS AT DAMASCUS: AND KING AHAZ SENT TO URIJAH THE PRIEST THE FASHION OF THE ALTAR, AND THE PATTERN OF IT,...
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....
WENT TO DAMASCUS] perhaps to do homage to the Assyrian king there. SAW AN ALTAR] probably of Assyrian pattern, since Ahaz would be more likely to introduce into his own land the religion of the victor...
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...
AHAZ WENT TO DAMASCUS, TO MEET TIGLATH-PILESER. — The great king appears to have held his court there after the capture of the city, and to have summoned the vassal princes of Palestine thither to do...
וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ אָחָ֡ז לִ֠ קְרַאת
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...
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;...
HIGH-HANDED IDOLATRY 2 Kings 16:10 The calling in of the king of Assyria was fraught with disastrous consequences. “He distressed him and strengthened him not.” Well may the Apostle warn us not to be...
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...
I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view, because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contemplat...
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...
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...
AND KING AHAZ WENT TO DAMASCUS TO MEET TIGLATHPILESER KING OF ASSYRIA,.... When he heard he was come thither, and had taken it, to congratulate him on the victory, and to give him thanks for his assis...
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,...
_And King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser_ To congratulate his victory, acknowledge his favour and help, and to beg the continuance of it. _And saw an altar that was at Damascus_ Of an excellent str...
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...
And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, to express his appreciation of the assistance which had been rendered him and his people, AND SAW AN ALTAR THAT WAS AT DAMASCUS...
AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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...
DAMASCUS: _ Heb._ Dammesek...
10-16 God's altar had hitherto been kept in its place, and in use; but Ahaz put another in the room of it. The natural regard of the mind of man to some sort of religion, is not easily extinguished; b...
TO MEET TIGLATH-PILESER KING OF ASSYRIA; to congratulate his victory, and acknowledge his favour and help, and to beg the continuance of it. SAW AN ALTAR of an excellent structure, upon which the Syri...
2 Kings 16:10 King H4428 Ahaz H271 went H3212 (H8799) Damascus H1834 meet H7125 (H8800) Tiglath-Pileser H8407 king
THE APPEAL OF AHAZ TO TIGLATH-PILESER III, KING OF ASSYRIA, AND HIS TOTAL SUBMISSION TO HIM IN BOTH WORD AND BEHAVIOUR (2 KINGS 16:7). Having expressed his unwillingness to rely on YHWH Ahaz had no al...
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...
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...
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...
_And King Ahaz went to Damascus _. .. _ and saw an altar._ THE COSMOPOLITAN IN RELIGION This is an incident familiar to all Bible students. You know that King Ahaz, and it is saying a great deal, was...
_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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 16:10 Ahaz travels to Damascus to meet his new Assyrian overlord (see note on vv. 7–9). Ahaz is so impressed by a pagan ALTAR he sees in DAMASCUS th
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...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 16:1 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH-
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...
1 Chronicles 28:11; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:19; 1 Peter 1:18;...