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Verse 2 Kings 16:14. _PUT IT ON THE NORTH SIDE_] He seems to have
intended to _conform_ every thing in the Lord's house as much as
possible to the idolatrous temples which he saw at Damascus, and to...
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Hereto the “Brasen altar” (marginal reference) had, it would seem,
occupied a position directly in front of the temple porch, which it
exactly equalled in width. Now Ahaz removed it from this place, a...
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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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BRASEN ALTAR. Compare 1 Kings 8:64.
THE ALTAR: i.e. the new altar....
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_And he brought &c._ The R.V. adheres to the Hebrew order. AND THE
BRASEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE LORD, HE BROUGHT FROM THE FOREFRONT
OF THE HOUSE. This brasen altar is described 2 Chronicles 4:1,...
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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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_AND URIJAH THE PRIEST BUILT AN ALTAR ACCORDING TO ALL THAT KING AHAZ
HAD SENT FROM DAMASCUS: SO URIJAH THE PRIEST MADE IT AGAINST KING AHAZ
CAME FROM DAMASCUS._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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 BRASEN ALTAR] i.e. the altar constructed by Solomon (1 Kings
8:64). This had hitherto occupied a central position in the court in
front of the Temple; but now, in order to make room for the new al...
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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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AND HE BROUGHT ALSO THE BRASEN ALTAR... — Literally, _And as for the
brasen altar, he brought it near_ (to the new one), _away from the
front of the house, to wit, from between the_ (new) _altar, and...
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וְ אֵ֨ת הַ מִּזְבַּ֣ח הַ נְּחֹשֶׁת֮
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
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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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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...
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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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And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house
of the LORD, and put it on the (i) north side of the altar.
(i...
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And from. Hebrew, "from between the new altar and the house of," &c.
(Haydock) --- Achaz had placed his altar before that of Solomon: but
he afterwards removed the latter from the right-hand of the sa...
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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...
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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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AND HE BROUGHT ALSO THE BRASEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE LORD,....
That which Solomon made, 2 Chronicles 4:1, which stood in the court by
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lor...
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And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house
of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
Ver. 1...
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_And he burned his burnt-offering_, &c. For the heathen, and Ahaz, in
imitation of them, offered the same sorts of offerings to their false
gods which the Israelites did to the true. _He brought also...
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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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And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the Lord, the
altar of burnt offering, FROM THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOUSE, FROM BETWEEN
THE ALTAR, that is, the new altar, AND THE HOUSE OF THE LORD...
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AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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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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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...
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THE BRAZEN ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERINGS, made by Solomon, and placed there
by God's appointment. Which was before the Lord, i.e. from before the
Lord's house: SEE POOLE ON "LEVITICUS 1:3". _From between t...
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2 Kings 16:14 brought H7126 (H8686) bronze H5178 altar H4196 before
H6440 LORD H3068 front H6440 altar H4196 hous
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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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THE SUBSEQUENT BASTARDISATION OF THE TEMPLE RESULTING FROM AHAZ'S
SUBMISSION. THE TEMPLE IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:12).
What followed was unquestionably a bastardisation of the Temple. The
‘true' altar...
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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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_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...
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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 16:10 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
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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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2 Chronicles 1:5; 2 Chronicles 4:1; 2 Kings 16:10; Exodus 40:29;...