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THE WICKED REIGN OF AHAZ BRINGS AWFUL PUNISHMENT UPON JUDAH
XI. AHAZ (735-715 B.C.)
A SUMMARY OF THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ
"Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father; but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."
Pages 197-207 in my commentary on 2Kings are devoted to a discussion of the reign of Ahaz; and the only section of this chapter which is not mentioned there is found in 2 Chronicles 27:8-15. These verses provide a remarakbly interesting insight into the problems of those times.
It will suffice here to note that Ahaz was by far the most wicked of the kings of Judah up to this point in their history. He even sacrificed his son to Molech, closed the temple, and worshipped pagan gods.
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