Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Kings 16:1
In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the second-last king of Israel, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the second-last king of Israel, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
CHAPTER XVI _Ahaz begins to reign, acts wickedly, and restores idolatry in_ _Judea_, 1-4. _Rezin, king of Syria, besieges Jerusalem, but cannot take it;_ _he takes Elath, and drives the Jews thenc...
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. One of the four kings in whose reign Isaiah prophesied. Compare 2 Chronicles 28:1.Isaiah 1:1....
Reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. He reigns wickedly. Israel and Syria make war upon Jerusalem. Ahaz obtains assistance from Tiglath-pileser (2 Chronicles 28:1-21) 1. _In the seventeenth year of Pekah_ It...
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...
_IN THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH AHAZ THE SON OF JOTHAM KING OF JUDAH BEGAN TO REIGN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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....
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...
בִּ שְׁנַת֙ שְׁבַֽע ־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לְ פֶ֖
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;...
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...
SEEKING HELP FROM WRONG SOURCES 2 Kings 16:1 Ahaz was one of the most wicked kings of Judah. He not only passed his children through the lines of fire, but seems to have burned some of them, 2 Chroni...
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...
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah (a) Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. (a) This was a wicked son of a godly father, as of him again came godly Hezekiah, and of...
What an awful account both the histories of Judah and Israel furnish! the succession of the kings, for the most part, is but a succession of evil. Idolatry, during the reign of Ahaz, seems to have bee...
CONTENTS This chapter is wholly spent in recording the evil reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. The close of the chapter brings in a relief to the mind the introduction of his son Hezekiah, who succeeded h...
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...
IN THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH AHAZ THE SON OF JOTHAM KING OF JUDAH BEGAN TO REIGN. Jotham began to reign in the second of Pekah, and he reigned sixteen years, and therefore his...
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. Ver. 1. _Ahaz the son of Jotham._] Under this most wicked prince prophesied Isaiah, Hosea, Mi...
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...
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...
1-9 Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them, will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God. The sin was its own punishment. It is common for those who bring th...
2 KINGS CHAPTER 16 Ahaz's idolatry, 2 KINGS 16:1. Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, war against him: he hireth Tiglath-pileser against them, 2 KINGS 16:5. Ahaz goeth to Damascus to meet t...
2 Kings 16:1 seventeenth H7651 H6240 year H8141 H8141 Pekah H6492 son H1121 Remaliah H7425 Ahaz H271 son...
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...
DETAILS OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF AHAZ'S REIGN AND HIS BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIONS IN THE EYES OF YHWH (2 KINGS 16:1). Ahaz was twenty years old when he commenced his co-regency with his father, and his sole r...
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...
_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 16:1 HE DID NOT DO WHAT WAS RIGHT. Under Jotham’s son AHAZ, Judah returns to officially sanctioned idolatry. The HIGH PLACES become centers of Canaanite rel
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...
2 Chronicles 28:1; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 15:32; 2 Kings 15:33;...