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THE BRASEN ALTAR SHALL BE FOR ME TO INQUIRE BY - The bulk of modern
commentators translate - “As for the Brasen altar, it will be for me
to inquire (or consider) what I shall do with it.”...
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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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GREAT ALTAR: i.e. the new altar.
TO ENQUIRE. to consider further [what shall he done with it]. Figure
of speech _Ellipsis._ Hebrew. _bakar._ Occurs seven times (2 Kings
16:15.Leviticus 13:36; Leviticu...
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_Upon the great altar_ By this name he distinguishes his own altar. We
know nothing of its dimensions but we need not refer the adjective
-great" to the size of the structure. The king calls it so, be...
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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 KING AHAZ COMMANDED URIJAH THE PRIEST, SAYING, UPON THE GREAT
ALTAR BURN THE MORNING BURNT OFFERING, AND THE EVENING MEAT OFFERING,
AND THE KING'S BURNT SACRIFICE, AND HIS MEAT OFFERING, WITH THE...
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16:15 burn (a-13) Strictly, 'burn as incense.' see Leviticus 1:9 ;
Exodus 29:13 ; 2 Chronicles 28:3 ; 2 Chronicles 29...
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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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TO ENQUIRE _by_] i.e. to obtain indications of the divine will,
possibly by the inspection of the victims that were offered upon it.
But some render, 'shall be left for further consideration.' If this...
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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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THE GREAT ALTAR — i.e., as we say, “the _high_ altar,” the new
Syrian one. So the high priest is sometimes called “the great
priest” (_kôhèn hâggâdôl_)_,_ Ahaz orders that the daily
national sacrifice...
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_וַ_†_יְצַוֶּ֣ה_† הַ מֶּֽלֶךְ ־אָ֠חָז
אֶת ־אוּרִיָּ֨ה...
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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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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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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 king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the...
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Morning, as prescribed in the law, Exodus xxix. 38. --- King's
ordained for sin: (Leviticus iv. 22.) or instituted by Solomon, who
left a fund. (Haydock) (2 Paralipomenon viii. 12.) (Menochius) --- Th...
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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 KING AHAZ COMMANDED URIJAH THE PRIEST, SAYING,.... Who was not to
be commanded by the king in matters of worship, but to attend to the
laws and institutions of God:
SAYING, UPON THE GREAT ALTAR;...
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_And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the...
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_Ahaz commanded, Upon the great altar burn the morning
burnt-offering_, &c. He made a solemn injunction, that all the public
sacrifices, of what sort soever they were, whether made by himself or
by th...
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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 PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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And King Ahaz commanded Urijah, the priest, saying, Upon the great
altar, the new altar, which was now the principal one, BURN THE
MORNING BURNT OFFERING, AND THE EVENING MEAT-OFFERING, the
correspond...
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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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UPON THE GREAT ALTAR, i.e. this new altar; which was greater than
Solomon s, either in quantity, or in his estimation. Whatsoever is
offered to the true God, either in my name, (for possibly he did no...
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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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1 Kings 3:4; 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Chronicles 29:21; 2 Chronicles 29:32;...
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Great altar — This new altar; which was greater than Solomon's.
Sacrifice — Whatsoever is offered to the true God, either in my name
(for possibly he did not yet utterly forsake God, but worshipped id...