XVI.
THE REIGN OF AHAZ.
(Comp. 2 Chronicles 28)
(2) Twenty years old. — The number should probably be twenty -and- five, according to the LXX., Syriac, and Arabic of 2 Chronicles 28:1. Otherwise, Ahaz was begotten when his father was ten (or, eleven) years old — a thing perhaps not impossible in the East, where both sexes reach maturity earlier than among Western races.