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2 Kings 16:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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2 Chron. 28:1• ¹Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father: (2 Chron. 28:1)

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1-4: Ahaz's wicked reign.

5-9: Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them.

10-16: Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, diverts the brazen altar to his own devotions.

17-18: He spoils the temple.

19-20: Hezekiah succeeds him.

seventeenth.

2 Kings 15:27‑30,32‑33• ²⁷In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
²⁸And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
²⁹In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
³⁰And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
³²In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
³³Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. (2 Kings 15:27‑30,32‑33)

Ahaz.

2 Kings 15:38• ³⁸And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. (2 Kings 15:38)

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2 Chron. 28:1‑4• ¹Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:
²For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
³Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
⁴He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Chron. 28:1‑4)

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Isa. 1:1• ¹The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. (Isa. 1:1)

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Isa. 7:1• ¹And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. (Isa. 7:1)

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Hos. 1:1• ¹The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. (Hos. 1:1)

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Mic. 1:1• ¹The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. (Mic. 1:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.