2 Kings 16:20

And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Benson Commentary

2 Kings 16:20. And Ahaz slept with his fathers — Resigning his life in the midst of his days, at thirty-six years of age, and leaving his kingdom to a better man, Hezekiah his son, who proved as much a friend to the temple as Ahaz had been an enemy to it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:17-20 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rest of the acts of Ahaz - Such as are described in Isaiah 7:10-13; 2 Chronicles 28:23-25; 2 Chronicles 29:3, 2 Chronicles 29:7.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. the covert for the Sabbath—the portico through which the priests entered the temple on the Sabbath.

the king's entry without—a private external entrance for the king into the temple. The change made by Ahaz consisted in removing both of these into the temple from fear of the king of Assyria, that, in case of a siege, he might secure the entrance of the temple from him.

Matthew Poole's Commentary

No text from Poole on this verse.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David,.... But not in the sepulchres of the kings of Israel, as David and Solomon, he being such a wicked prince, 2 Chronicles 28:27.

and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead; of whom much is said in the following part of this history.

Geneva Study Bible

And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

20. was buried with his fathers] The last three words are not represented in the LXX., and the Chronicler says ‘they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel.’ For bodily leprosy Uzziah had been treated in the same way after death and the moral and spiritual leprosy of the idol-loving Ahaz was worthy of a like deprivation. ‘Of all the kings of Judah hitherto, there is no one so dreadful an example, either of sin or judgment, as this son of good Jotham. I abhor to think that such a monster should descend from the loins of David. Where should be the period of this wickedness? He began with the high places … from thence he falls to a Syrian altar, to the Syrian god: then from a partnership, he falls to an utter exclusion of the true God, and blocking up of His temple, and then to the sacrifice of his own son; and at last as if hell were broken loose upon God’s inheritance, every several city, every high place of Judah hath a new god. No marvel if he be branded (2 Chronicles 28:22) by the spirit of God with “This is that king Ahaz” ’ (Bp. Hall).

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. This must be taken in the same sense, and with the same limitations, as the same phrase in 2 Kings 12:21. The writer of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 28:27) says, "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchers of the kings." Like Uzziah, he was not thought worthy of sepulture in the royal catacomb (see the comment on 2 Kings 12:21).



2 Kings 16:20

Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

Conclusion of the reign of Ahaz. According to 2 Chronicles 28:27, he was buried in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.