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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

A people's king and priest; or, kinghood and priesthood. "In the seventeenth year of Pekah," etc. Throughout all lands, almost throughout all times, two functionaries have been at the head of the peoples, too often treading them down by oppression, and fattening on them by their greed. One of these functionaries was not, among the Jews, of Divine ordinations; for the Almighty is represented as saying, "They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not." Let... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:2

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign. As sixteen years afterwards his son Hezekiah was twenty-five ( 2 Kings 18:2 ), it is scarcely possible that Ahaz can have been no more than twenty at his accession, since in that case he must have married at ten years of age, and have had a son at eleven! The reading of "twenty-five" instead of "twenty," found in some Hebrew codices, in the Vatican manuscript of the Septuagint, and elsewhere, is therefore to be preferred. And reigned... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:3

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Not, of course, by establishing a worship of calves, but by following the worst practices of the worst Israelite kings, e . g . Ahab and Ahaziah, and reintroducing into Judah the Phoenician idolatry, which Joash and the high priest Jehoiada had cast out ( 2 Kings 11:17 , 2 Kings 11:18 ). As the writer of Chronicles says ( 2 Chronicles 28:2 ), "He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim ."... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 16:3

Ahaz was the worst of all the kings of Judah. He imitated the worst of the Israelite kings - Ahab and Ahaziah - by a re-introduction of the Baal worship, which had been rooted out of Israel by Jehu and out of Judah by Jehoiada.And made Iris son to pass through the fire - i. e. Ahaz adopted the Moloch worship of the Ammonites and Moabites 2 Kings 3:27; Micah 6:7, and sacrificed at least one son, probably his firstborn, according to the horrid rites of those nations, and the Canaanite tribes... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:2

2 Kings 16:2. Ahaz did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord Contrary to what might have been expected, considering the good education which, doubtless, Jotham, his pious father, gave him, and the excellent example he set him. Like David his father Or progenitor. It was his honour that he was of the house and lineage of David, and it was owing to God’s ancient covenant with David, that he was now upon the throne: but he had none of that concern and affection for the instituted... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:3

2 Kings 16:3. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel Who all worshipped the calves, and were therefore idolaters. He was not joined in any affinity with them, as Jehoram and Ahaziah were with the house of Ahab, but of his own accord and voluntary motion, and, without any instigation, he walked in their way. The kings of Israel pleaded policy and reasons of state for their idolatry; but Ahaz had no such pretence: in him it was the most unreasonable and impolitic conduct that could be.... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

Judah’s decline under Ahaz (15:27-16:20)The writer of Kings records the Assyrian attack mentioned above. Pekah’s policy had proved fatal and he was assassinated by Hoshea, a sympathizer with Assyria. Hoshea then became king and won temporary relief for Israel by submitting to Assyria’s control (27-31).Before speaking further of Hoshea, the writer returns to the time before Pekah was assassinated. Pekah’s program for the conquest of Judah had begun during the reign of Jotham, but reached its... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 16:2

Twenty years old . . . sixteen. There is no reason for concluding that "there must be an error in one of the passages" (viz. 2 Kings 16:2 and 2 Kings 18:2 ), for Ahaz begins in 622 and reigns till 616. As he was twenty when he began, he was born in 652, and died when thirty-six. Hezekiah begins in 617, and reigns twenty-nine years, till 588. As he was twenty-five when he began he was therefore born in 642, and died when he was fifty-four, From this it is clear that Ahaz was between ten and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 16:3

he walked. Compare 2 Chronicles 28:2 . son. See note on 2 Chronicles 28:3 . to pass through the fire. The first king of Judah to do this. Followed in it by Manasseh (2 Kings 21:6 ; 2 Kings 23:10 ). Compare Jeremiah 7:31 .Ezekiel 20:26 , and Leviticus 18:21 . heathen = nations. children = sons. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 16:3

3. walked in the way of the kings of Israel—This is descriptive of the early part of his reign, when, like the kings of Israel, he patronized the symbolic worship of God by images but he gradually went farther into gross idolatry ( :-). made his son to pass through the fire— (2 Kings 23:10). The hands of the idol Moloch being red hot, the children were passed through between them, which was considered a form of lustration. There is reason to believe that, in certain circumstances, the children... read more