Isaiah 7:1,2

If the Reader will consult the corresponding scripture, in the history of the kings of Judah and Israel, he will find that a considerable time had elapsed between the vision in the preceding chapter, and the opening of this. It is not said, what year of Ahaz's reign it was w hen those kings came up against Jerusalem. But it could not have been less than sixteen or seventeen years after Uzziah died: for the whole reign of Jotham is passed over, and that continued sixteen years. See 2 Kings 16:1, and 2 Chronicles 28:1. The character of Ahaz is so largely given in those scriptures, that I refer the Reader to what is said of him, and his impiety, in these places.