2 Kings 16:1
In the seventeenth year of Phakee son of Romelias began Achaz the son of Joatham king of Juda to reign.
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2 Kings 15:27In the fifty-second year of Azarias king of Juda + 15:27 Gr. reigned. began Phakee the son of Romelias to reign over Israel in Samaria twenty years.
2 Kings 15:38And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 3:13Achaz his son, Ezekias his son, Manasses his son,
Isaiah 1:1The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.
Isaiah 7:3And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, you, and your son Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field.
Hosea 1:1The word of the Lord which came to Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, 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 →