2 Kings 16:16

16:16 So Uriah the priest did exactly as ¹  King Ahaz ordered.

2 Kings 16:10-11

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. ²  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. ³  16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ⁴  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ⁵ 

2 Kings 15:38--16:2

15:38 Jotham passed away ⁶  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

Ahaz’s Reign over Judah

16:1 In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah. 16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁷  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ⁸ 

2 Kings 16:5

16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. ⁹  They besieged Ahaz, ¹⁰  but were unable to conquer him. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ¹²  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ¹³  to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 16:19--17:1

16:19 The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹⁴  16:20 Ahaz passed away ¹⁵  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

Hoshea’s Reign over Israel

17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ¹⁶  for nine years.

2 Kings 18:1

Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah

18:1 In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹⁷  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. ¹⁹  March up and rescue me from the power ²⁰  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked ²¹  me.”

2 Kings 16:17

16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ²²  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ²³  and put it on the pavement.

2 Kings 23:12

23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up ²⁴  and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ²⁵  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ²⁶ 

[16:16]  ¹ tn Heb “according to all which.”

[16:10]  ² tn Heb “in Damascus.”

[16:10]  ³ tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

[16:11]  ³ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

[15:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:2]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

[16:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”

[16:5]  ⁷ tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.

[16:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “they were unable to fight.” The object must be supplied from the preceding sentence. Elsewhere when the Niphal infinitive of לָחָם (lakham) follows the verb יָכֹל (yakhol), the infinitive appears to have the force of “prevail against.” See Num 22:11; 1 Sam 17:9; and the parallel passage in Isa 7:1.

[16:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “that was found.”

[16:8]  ⁸ tn Or “bribe money.”

[16:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Ahaz, and that which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[16:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[17:1]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ¹² tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[16:7]  ¹² tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

[16:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “hand, palm.”

[16:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

[16:17]  ¹³ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[16:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “that [were] under it.”

[23:12]  ¹⁴ tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.

[16:15]  ¹⁵ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.