2 Kings 16 — Overview

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This chapter contains the reign of Ahaz only, relates his idolatry, 2Ki 16:1 his hiring the king of Assyria with the treasure of the temple, and his own, to assist him against the kings of Israel and Syria, who besieged him, 2Ki 16:5, his seeing the altar of an idol at Damascus, the fashion of which he took, and ordered one like it to be built at Jerusalem, 2Ki 16:10, his defacing and removing some things in the temple, 2Ki 16:17, and the chapter is concluded with his death and burial, 2Ki 16:19.

Ver. 1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

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2 Kings 16 — Overview2 Kings 16 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis 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.…2 Kings 16 — Overview2 Kings 16 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge2 Kings 16:1, Ahaz’s wicked reign; 2 Kings 16:5, Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them; 2 Kings 16:10, Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, diverts the brazen…2 Kings 16:1-42 Kings 16:1-4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here a general character of the reign of Ahaz. Few and evil were his days--few, for he died at thirty-six--evil, for we are here told, 1. That he did not that which was right like David (v. 2), that is,…2 Kings 16:1-202 Kings 16:1-20 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION 2 Kings 16:1-20 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH-PILESER AGAINST THEM. RELIGIOUS CHANGES MADE BY AHAZ. HIS DEATH. 2 Kings 16:1-4 General character of the…2 Kings 16:1-202 Kings 16:1-20 · The Pulpit CommentaryIII. THAT CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN RELIGIOUSLY BROUGHT UP, IF THEY TURN TO EVIL COURSES, INCUR A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY. "It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known…2 Kings 16:1-202 Kings 16:1-20 · The Pulpit Commentary3. His extravagance in worship. It is further narrated that Ahaz sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Worship in this reign seemed to have run riot; yet there…

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