2 Kings 16:1
In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah: Ahaz, the son of Jotham, reigned as king of Judah.
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2 Kings 15:27In the fifty-second year of Azariah, the king of Judah: Pekah, the son of Remaliah, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, for twenty years.
2 Kings 15:38And Jotham slept with his fathers, and he was buried with them in the city of David, his father. And Ahaz, his son, reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 3:13conceived Ahaz, the father of Hezekiah, from whom was born Manasseh.
Isaiah 1:1The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah 7:3And the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son, Jashub, who was left behind, to the end of the aqueduct, at the upper pool, on the road to the fuller’s field.
Hosea 1:1The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:1
This chapter is wholly taken up with the reign of Ahaz; and we have quite enough of it, unless it were better. He had a good father, and a better son, and yet was himself one of the worst of the kings of Judah. I. He was a notorious idolater, ver. 1-4 . II. With the treasures of the temple, as well as his own, he hired the king of Assyria to invade Syria and Israel, ver. 5-9 . III. He took pattern from an idol's altar which he saw at Damascus for a new altar in God's temple, ver. 10-16 . IV. He abused and… Read the whole commentary →