2 Kings 16:1

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah (a) Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. (a) This was a wicked son of a godly f...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16. Reign of Ahaz. This chapter is assigned to different sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple, though it allu...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ahaz. One of the four kings in whose reign Isaiah prophesied. Compare 2 Chronicles 28:1 . Isaiah 1:1 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ahaz and Assyria This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ 2 Kings 16:1-18 "For when we in our wickedness grow hard, Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes; In our own...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE REIGN OF AHAZ B.C. 735-715 2 Kings 16:1-20 "Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Seeking Help from Wrong Sources 2 Kings 16:1-9 Ahaz was one of the most wicked kings of Judah. He not only passed his children through the line...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under Tiglathpileser i...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS This chapter is wholly spent in recording the evil reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. The close of the chapter brings in a relief to the mind th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What an awful account both the histories of Judah and Israel furnish! the succession of the kings, for the most part, is but a succession of evil. Id...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. Jotham began to reign in the second of Pe...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. Ver. 1. Ahaz the son of Jotham. ] Under...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ (vv.1-4). Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is not mentioned, perhaps because she was no...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reign of Ahaz. B. C. 726. 1 In the...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 KINGS CHAPTER 16 Ahaz's idolatry, 2 Kings 16:1-4 . Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, war against him: he hireth Tiglath-pileser a...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Details Of The Commencement Of Ahaz's reign And His Behaviour And Actions In The Eyes Of YHWH ( 2 Kings 16:1-3 ). Ahaz was twenty years old when h...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reign Of Ahaz King Of Judah c. 732/1-716/15 BC. Co-regent from 744/43 BC. Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 16:2 . Twenty years old was Ahab when, &c.—The Sept. MS. of the Vati...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 16:3 . Ahaz made his son pass through the fire. It appears from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a god by lust...
The Biblical Illustrator

In the seventeenth year of Pekah. A people’s king and priest, or kinghood and priesthood I. The kinghood. 1. The de-humanising force of fals...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 16:1-12 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH . WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN . EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH -...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the second-last king of Israel, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ahaz Calls upon Assyria for Help
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:1-4 ; 2 Kings 15:27-30 ; 2 Kings 15:32 ; 2 Kings 15:33 ; 2 Kings 15:38 ; Hosea 1:1 ; Isaiah 1:1 ; Isaiah 7:1 ; Micah 1:1

¹ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 16:1

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 16:1