Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
2 Kings 16:16
Thus did Urijah the priest, &c. Having once begun to defile his conscience, he could not now make an honourable retreat, and therefore proceeds to execute all the king's commands.
Thus did Urijah the priest, &c. Having once begun to defile his conscience, he could not now make an honourable retreat, and therefore proceeds to execute all the king's commands.
The writer condemns the obsequiousness of Urijah, whose conduct was the more inexcusable after the noble example of his predecessor Azariah 2 Chronicles 26:17....
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 ...
DID URIJAH. Unlike Azariah in 2 Chronicles 26:17; 2 Chronicles 26:18....
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...
_THUS DID URIJAH THE PRIEST, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT KING AHAZ COMMANDED._ 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...
וַ יַּ֖עַשׂ אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַ כֹּהֵ֑ן כְּ כֹ֥ל
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THUS DID URIJAH THE PRIEST, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT KING AHAZ COMMANDED. Not only concerning the structure of the altar, but the sacrifices to be offered on it; like king like priest, both apostates and...
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. Ver. 16. _Thus did Urijah the priest._] A fawning parasite to that wicked king; and one of those _qui sacerdotium in aucupium ve...
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...
Thus did Urijah, the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded; he readily agreed to these unwarranted changes and thus became guilty with the king....
AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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...
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...
Having once began to debauch his conscience, he could not now make an honourable retreat; and therefore proceeds to execute all the king's commands....
2 Kings 16:16 did H6213 (H8799) Urijah H223 priest H3548 King H4428 Ahaz H271 commanded H6680 (H8765)...
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...
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 16:10 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
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 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Kings 16:11; Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29; Jude 1:11...