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 that he has a copy of it set up in Jerusalem. Ahaz’s religion is a full-fledged mixing of the Israelite true religion with the pagan religions of the other nations, including divination (the interpretation of omens). The practice is forbidden in Deuteronomy 18:10.

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