Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 16:3
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.
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.
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;...
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...
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 ...
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;...
_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...
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...
_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...
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....
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),...
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...
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...
וַ יֵּ֕לֶךְ בְּ דֶ֖רֶךְ מַלְכֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...
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;...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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 Israel...
_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...
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...
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...
AHAZ CALLS UPON ASSYRIA FOR HELP...
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...
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...
2 Kings 16:3 walked H3212 (H8799) way H1870 kings H4428 Israel H3478 son H1121 through H5674 (H8689) fire...
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...
1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 21:25;...