XXVIII.
THE REIGN OF AHAZ. (Comp. 2 Kings 16)
PRELIMINARY NOTICES OF THE LENGTH AND CHARACTER OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 28:1-4).
(1) Ahaz was twenty years old. — The verse is identical with 2 Kings 16:2; LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, “twenty and five.” (See 2 Chronicles 29:1.)
The Lord. — Add his God. So some MSS. and Syriac; also Kings. The Assyrian monuments call Ahaz Yahuhazi, i.e., Jehoahaz, of which Ahaz may be a familiar abridgment. (Comp. Nathan, Jonathan.)