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Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

ISAIAH AND AHAZ2 Kings 16:1-20"Expediency is man’s wisdom; doing right is God’s."- GEORGE MEREDITHISAIAH was one of those men whom God provides for the need of kingdoms. He was not only a prophet, but a statesman, a reformer, a poet, a man of invincible faith and unequalled: insight. If Ahaz had accepted his counsels and followed his moral guidance, the whole history of Judah might have been different.But the position of things was indeed disastrous. Judah was attacked from every side. On the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Kings 16:1-20

7. King Ahaz and Assyria CHAPTER 16 1. King Ahaz and his reign (2 Kings 16:1-4 ; 2 Chronicles 28:0 ) 2. The invasion by the two kings (2 Kings 16:5-6 ) 3. Ahaz appeals to Assyria (2 Kings 16:7-8 ) 4. Ahaz in Damascus and the idolatrous altar (2 Kings 16:9-18 ) 5. Death of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:19-20 ; 2 Chronicles 28:26-27 ) Righteous Jotham had for his successor a wicked son. Ahaz “walked in the way of the Kings of Israel, yea, and made his son pass through the fire according to the... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:1-20

THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ (vv.1-4). Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign and reigned 16 years, so that he died at the early age of 36. He seemed to revel in doing evil, not only following the ways of the kings of Israel, but adopting the wicked worship of the nations the Lord had dispossessed because of their evil, - even sacrificing his son to the flames... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY AZARIAH OF JUDAH (2 Kings 15:1-7 ) This king is called Uzziah in 2 Kings 15:13 ; 2 Kings 2:0 Kings 15 :2 Kings 15:30 , and in 2 Chronicles 26:0 . Read the last-named chapter for an enlargement of his history and an explanation of certain features not given here. Note his long reign, his generally good character, the cause of his failure, and the circumstance that his son reigned with him jointly for a short period. ISRAEL’S NEW ENEMY (2 Kings 15:8-31 ) Zachariah is... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 2 Kings 16:1-20

2 Kings 16:0 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 [a sacrifice by fire. Such an appalling rite is really intended: chap. 2 Kings 17:31 ; Jeremiah... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-20

I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view, because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contemplate, without horror, the daring conduct of this man, after so gracious a message as he received from God, to go and take the copy of an idolatrous altar from among the heathen dunghill gods, of Damascus. We hardly meet with a parallel instance of wickedness among all the kings of Israel and Judah.... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Kings 16:20

REFLECTIONS How painful a thought is it to behold in this history of Israel and Judah the sad proofs of a fallen state! whether we read of one king or another, the general features of all are the same; All have sinned and come short of God's glory! But with what increased distress do we behold in the priests of God, as in this awful character of Urijah, the dreadful apostacy of mankind! and in the end, what must be the awful consequence. Begin at my sanctuary, saith God in his judgments. And if... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:19

Book. Hebrew, "in the chronicles;" or, "in the book of the annals." (Haydock) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:20

With them; but not in the same sepulchre, on account of his impiety, 2 Paralipomenon xxviii. 27. (Calmet) --- In the 5th year of his reign, the Idumeans harassed the country, and in the 6th, the Philistines took several towns; (Salien) so that he fell a prey to enemies on all sides, and was memorable for nothing but impiety and disasters. (Haydock) --- Rome was built, and Numa born, on the 21st of April, in the 9th year of Achaz, and the first of the 7th Olympiad. (Salien, the year before... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:17-20

17-20 Ahaz put contempt upon the sabbath, and thus opened a wide inlet to all manner of sin. This he did for the king of Assyria. When those who have had a ready passage to the house of the Lord, turn it another way to please their neighbours, they are going down-hill apace to ruin. read more