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Verse 2 Kings 16:3. _MADE HIS SON TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE_] On this
passage I beg leave to refer the reader to my notes on Leviticus
18:21; Leviticus 20:2;...
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Ahaz was the worst of all the kings of Judah. He imitated the worst of
the Israelite kings - Ahab and Ahaziah - by a re-introduction of the
Baal worship, which had been rooted out of Israel by Jehu an...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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HE WALKED. Compare 2 Chronicles 28:2.
SON. See note on 2 Chronicles 28:3.
TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. The first king of Judah to do this. Followed
in it by Manasseh (2 Kings 21:6;...
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_he walked in the way of the kings of Israel_ This is more fully
explained by the Chronicler, and means that he followed after all
kinds of heathen idolatry, not that he introduced the worship of the...
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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...
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_BUT HE WALKED IN THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, YEA, AND MADE HIS
SON TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, ACCORDING TO THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE
HEATHEN, WHOM THE LORD CAST OUT FROM BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAE...
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HE WALKED, etc.] see 2 Chronicles 28:2 where he is described as making
images for Baalim. MADE HIS SON.. FIRE] Children were sometimes
actually sacrificed and burnt (see 2 Kings 17:31; 2 Kings 3:27),...
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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....
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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...
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BUT HE WALKED IN THE WAY. — See Notes on 2 Chronicles 28:2.
MADE HIS SON TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. — The chronicler rightly
explains this as a _sacrifice_ by fire. That such an appalling rite is
reall...
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וַ יֵּ֕לֶךְ בְּ דֶ֖רֶךְ מַלְכֵ֣י
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son
to (b) pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Is...
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Fire, to purify him (or them, Paralipomenon filios, all were treated
thus. Haydock) according to the superstitions of the pagans: omnia
purgat edax ignis. (Ovid, Fast.) (Theodoret, q. 16.) (Menochius)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BUT HE WALKED IN THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL..... Worshipping the
calves as they did; which, as it was contrary to the religious
sentiments in which he was educated, so against his political
intere...
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_He walked in the way of the kings of Israel_ Who all worshipped the
calves, and were therefore idolaters. He was not joined in any
affinity with them, as Jehoram and Ahaziah were with the house of
Ah...
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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...
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, following their
idolatrous customs, YEA, AND MADE HIS SON TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, in
a form of the terrible human sacrifices in use among the Moabite...
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AHAZ CALLS UPON ASSYRIA FOR HELP...
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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...
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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...
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MADE HIS SON TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE; either,
1. By way of lustration, to pass hastily through it, so as to be
scorched, and, as it were, baptized with it. Or,
2. By way of oblation, so as to be utt...
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2 Kings 16:3 walked H3212 (H8799) way H1870 kings H4428 Israel H3478
son H1121 through H5674 (H8689) fire...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 16:1
REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION
OF TIGLATH-
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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...
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1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 21:25;...
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Pass — By way of oblation, so as to be consumed for a burnt —
offering, which was the practice of Heathens, and of some Israelites,
in imitation of them....