Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 16:4
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.
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.
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 ...
_And he sacrificed, &c._ Hitherto we have heard only that _the people_continued the worship in the high places. Now _the king_takes part in the same, and so makes it doubly popular. _under every green...
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...
_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....
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....
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...
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...
וַ יְזַבֵּ֧חַ וַ יְקַטֵּ֛ר בַּ † בָּמֹ֖ות...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
After the manner of the heathens: SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 12:2"; SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 2:20"; SEE POOLE ON "HOSEA 4:13"....
2 Kings 16:4 sacrificed H2076 (H8762) incense H6999 (H8762) places H1116 hills H1389 green H7488 tree H6086...
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...
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...
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 14:23; Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 20:28; Ezekiel 20:29;...