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HE SACRIFICED ... - Other kings of Judah bad allowed their people to
do so. Ahaz was the first, so far as we know, to countenance the
practice by his own example....
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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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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 HE SACRIFICED AND BURNT INCENSE IN THE HIGH PLACES, AND ON THE
HILLS, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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IN THE HIGH PLACES. — These are evidently distinguished from “the
hills,” two different prepositions being used in the Hebrew as in
the English. A _bâmâh,_ or “high-place,” was a local sanctuary,
and...
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וַ יְזַבֵּ֧חַ וַ יְקַטֵּ֛ר בַּ †
בָּמֹ֖ות...
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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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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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AND HE SACRIFICED AND BURNT INCENSE IN THE HIGH PLACES, AND ON THE
HILLS,.... Which none of the kings of Judah before him ever did; for
though they connived at this practice in the people, they never...
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And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
hills, and under every green tree.
Ver. 4. _And he sacrificed, &c._] He "did evil with both hands
earnestly," Mic 7:3 as if afraid t...
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_He sacrificed, &c., in the high places_ If his father had but had
zeal enough to take them away, it might have prevented the corrupting
of his sons. They that connive at sin, know not what dangerous...
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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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AHAZ CALLS UPON ASSYRIA FOR HELP...
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And he sacrificed and burned incense, with all the rites observed in
true worship, IN THE HIGH PLACES AND ON THE HILLS, where there was no
house of the Lord, but only idolatrous altars, AND UNDER EVER...
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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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After the manner of the heathens: SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 12:2"; SEE
POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 2:20"; SEE POOLE ON "HOSEA 4:13"....
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2 Kings 16:4 sacrificed H2076 (H8762) incense H6999 (H8762) places
H1116 hills H1389 green H7488 tree H6086...
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THE INVASION OF JUDAH BY REZIN KING OF ARAM AND PEKAH KING OF ISRAEL.
JUDAH IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:4).
The gathering threat from Israel and Aram to replace first Jotham, and
then after his death Aha...
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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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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 14:23; Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 20:28; Ezekiel 20:29;...