Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, like David his father, 1Ch 3:13Isa 1:12Ch 17:32Ki 16:1-20Hos 1:1Isa 7:1-12Mat 1:9Mic 1:1 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals. Exo 34:17Jdg 2:111Ki 16:31-332Ch 21:62Ch 22:3-42Ki 10:26-28Hos 2:13Hos 2:17 Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 2Ch 33:22Ch 33:6Lev 18:212Ki 23:10Jos 15:82Ki 16:3Deu 12:31Deu 18:9 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 2Ki 16:4Deu 12:2-3Lev 26:30
Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. Isa 7:12Ch 24:242Ki 16:5-62Ch 33:112Ch 36:172Ch 36:5Exo 20:2-3Jdg 2:14 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Jer 15:6Isa 1:28Jer 2:192Ki 15:27Jos 24:20Isa 9:212Ch 13:172Ch 15:2 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king. Est 10:3Gen 41:43Gen 43:12Gen 43:15 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria. 2Ch 11:4Deu 28:25Deu 28:41Act 13:26Act 7:26 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. Ezr 9:6Isa 47:6Rev 18:5Zec 1:151Ki 20:131Ki 20:221Ki 20:422Ch 19:1-2 Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against the LORD your God? Lev 25:39-461Pe 4:17-18Jer 25:29Mat 7:2-4Rom 12:20-21 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is on you.” Jas 2:132Ch 28:8Ezr 10:14Heb 13:1-3Isa 58:6Jer 34:14-15Mat 5:7Mat 7:2 Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war, 1Ch 28:1Jer 26:6 and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the LORD, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.” Jos 22:17-18Mat 23:32Mat 23:35Num 32:14Rom 2:5
So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly. The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. Deu 34:3Pro 25:21-222Ki 6:22Jdg 1:161Jn 3:17-18Isa 58:7Jas 2:15-16Job 31:15-23
At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. 2Ki 16:5-7Isa 7:17Isa 7:1-9 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. Oba 1:102Ch 25:11-12Lev 26:18Oba 1:13-14 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there. Ezk 16:57Ezk 16:271Sa 6:92Ch 11:10Jdg 14:1Jos 15:10Jos 15:41Jos 15:48 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against the LORD. 2Ch 21:2Job 40:121Sa 2:7Deu 28:43Exo 32:25Gen 3:11Gen 3:7Hos 5:11 Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. 2Ki 15:291Ch 5:26Isa 30:162Ki 16:7-102Ki 17:5Hos 5:13Isa 30:3Isa 7:20 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the LORD’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him. 2Ch 12:92Ki 16:8-92Ki 18:15-16Pro 20:25
In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this same King Ahaz. Ezk 21:13Isa 1:5Jer 5:32Ch 33:12Est 7:6Hos 5:15Psa 50:15Psa 52:7 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 2Ch 25:142Ki 16:12-13Hab 1:11Hos 13:9Isa 1:28Jer 10:5Jer 44:15-18Jer 44:20-28 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of the LORD’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 2Ch 29:72Ch 30:142Ch 33:3-52Ki 16:17-182Ch 29:32Ki 25:13-17Act 17:16Act 17:23 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to anger. 2Ch 28:3
Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 2Ki 16:19-202Ch 20:342Ch 27:7-9 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 2Ch 21:202Ch 24:251Sa 2:302Ch 26:232Ch 33:20Pro 10:7Isa 14:28