Judah’s King Ahaz
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, 16:1–4 2Ch 28:1–4 Ahaz 16:1 Is 1:1; 7:1 son of Jotham became king of Judah. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God like his ancestor David 16:2 1Kg 14:83 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. 16:3 2Kg 17:9–10 He even sacrificed his son in the fire, 16:3 Lit even made his son pass through the fire imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. 16:3 Dt 18:10; 2Kg 21:6; 2Ch 33:64 He sacrificed and burned incense 16:4 1Kg 22:17 on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. 16:4 Dt 12:2