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- Following Israel’s national divorce, not one of the northern kings was a good king in God’s eyes. Only a handful of the southern kings followed in David’s footsteps and served the Lord faithfully. Ahaz’s father and the three previous kings of Judah had been faithful to the God of David.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Ahaz’s father, King Jotham, was one of the good kings of Judah (2 Chronicles 27:2), so it is unclear why King Ahaz departed so completely from the teachings of the Lord. His repugnant deeds included sacrificing his own children, which was a great evil the kingdom of Israel had already been practicing (2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 28:3).
Dec 15, 2023 · Was Ahaz a Good King of Judah? Following Israel’s national divorce, not one of the northern kings was a good king in God’s eyes. Only a handful of the southern kings followed in David’s footsteps and served the Lord faithfully.
Ahaz King of Judah. 16 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 3 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel ...
- A Worrisome Time
- “Ask A Sign”
- Ahaz Seeks Other Protection
- Ahaz Worships A Defeated People’s Gods
- A Puzzle
The nation of Judah had been led by evil kings for many years. As a result, it was not a strong nation even before King Ahaz. But under his rule, “the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz, … for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the LORD” (2 Chronicles 28:19). So when Syria and Israel threatened the n...
“If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established,” Isaiah told King Ahaz—and all of the people of Judah (verse 9). Perhaps Isaiah could have said it another way: “If you believe what God says, you will surely be established!” And then God made Ahaz an incredible offer: “Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in t...
But Ahaz refused to believe God. And so God delivered the nation into the hands of Syria and Israel. A number of people were killed—2 Chronicles 28:6 says that 120,000 were killed in one day “because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.” The Syrians took many people captive, and so did the Israelites. But God was not pleased with this, ...
While Ahaz was in Damascus, he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus. The Bible quotes him as saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me” (2 Chronicles 28:23). Is this just something that happened thousands of years ago? No, people today try to do what God warned against here.Now wait a se...
Yes, it’s a puzzle why King Ahaz would reject a direct invitation from God to prove that He was real and trustworthy—and instead worship false gods, gods that were not real, that had not been able to take care of those who worshipped them. But it didn’t surprise God. Long before the time of Ahaz, He recognized this illogical tendency to adopt the w...
1. (1-2) The disobedience of Ahaz. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had done. a.
In this time of national peril and of testing for Ahaz the young king, Isaiah, with holy zeal and great faith, encouraged the king, by the Word of the Lord, promising early deliverance of Jerusalem, if not of the whole land of Judah . Ahaz responded with a great lack of faith (Isa 7:10-13).
22 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.”
