2 Kings 16:2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
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1 Kings 3:14And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
1 Kings 11:4For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
2 Kings 14:3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
2 Kings 15:34And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings 22:2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 28:1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:2-5
The Reign of Ahaz. ( b. c. 726.) 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of… Read the whole commentary →