2 Kings 16
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In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
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.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

he walked

2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house …

1 Kings 12:28-30 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …

1 Kings 16:31-33 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk …

1 Kings 21:25,26 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …

1 Kings 22:52,53 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of …

2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was …

2 Chronicles 28:2-4 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten …

made his son

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …

2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom…

Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …

Leviticus 20:2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of …

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …

Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …

Psalm 106:37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils,

Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their …

Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of …

Ezekiel 16:21 That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them …

Ezekiel 20:26,31 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass …

according

2 Kings 21:2,11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the …

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …

1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land…

2 Chronicles 33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like to the …

Psalm 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

Ezekiel 16:47 Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: …

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

A.M.

2 Chronicles 28:5 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …

Foretold

Amos 1:3-5 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for …

Damascus [heb] Dammesek
Kir Josephus informs us that this place was in Upper Media; and it is clear that it must be understood of some city or country in the dominions of the king of Assyria. It is highly probable that it was the country on the banks of the river Cyrus, or Kyrus, now called Kur, or Kura; and we find cities called Cyropolis, Cyrena, and Carine, mentioned by writers as lying in these parts, and a part of Media, called Syromedia, as it is thought, from the Syrians who were carried captive thither.

Isaiah 22:6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir …

Amos 9:7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? …

slew Rezin

Isaiah 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the …

Isaiah 9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against …

And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

the burnt

Leviticus 1:1-3:16 And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle …

of his peace offerings [heb] of the peace offerings which were his

And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

the morning

2 Kings 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, …

Exodus 29:39-41 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you …

Numbers 28:2-10 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering, and …

Daniel 9:21,27 Yes, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom …

Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary …

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and …

the king's burnt

Leviticus 4:13-26 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and …

2 Samuel 6:17,18 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, …

1 Kings 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the …

1 Kings 8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was …

2 Chronicles 7:4,5 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD…

2 Chronicles 29:21-24,32,35 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, …

Ezekiel 46:4-7,12-14 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD in …

for me to enquire by

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the …

Genesis 44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinks, and whereby indeed he divines? …

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …

Isaiah 2:6 Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because …

Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to …

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

the covert
There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship.

2 Kings 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do…

1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the …

Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, …

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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