2 Kings 16:2

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Twenty	עֶשְׂרִ֤ים 'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
years	שָׁנָה֙ sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
old	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Ahaz	אָחָ֣ז 'a.Chaz	H271	Achaz · proper noun, a man's name
reign	בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ be.ma.le.Kho	H4427	to reign · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	מָלַ֖ךְ ma.Lakh	H4427	to reign · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
sixteen	וְשֵׁשׁ ve.shesh-	H8337	six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the h… · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנָ֔ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Jerusalem	בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם bi.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · preposition + proper noun, a place name
did	עָשָׂ֣ה 'a.Sah	H6213	to do or make · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
right	הַיָּשָׁ֗ר hai.ya.Shar	H3477	straight (literally or figuratively) · definite article + adjective, masculine singular absolute
sight	בְּעֵינֵ֛י be.'ei.Nei	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct
LORD	יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהָ֖יו 'e.lo.Hav	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
David	כְּדָוִ֥ד ke.da.Vid	H1732	David · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
father	אָבִֽיו 'a.Viv	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 28:1-4 Ahaz 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 sigh…
1 Kings 3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1 Kings 9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have c…
1 Kings 11:4-8 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LOR…
1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart…
2 Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father…
2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2 Kings 15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:1-4

We have here a general character of the reign of Ahaz. Few and evil were his days - few, for he died at thirty-six - evil, for we are here told, 1. That he did not that which was right like David (Kg2 16:2), that is, he had none of that concern and affection for the instituted service and worship of God for which David was celebrated. He had no love for the temple, made no conscience of his duty to God, nor had any regard to his law. Herein he was unlike David; it was his honour that he was of the house and lineage of David, and it was owing to God's ancient covenant with David that he was now upon the throne, which aggravated his wickedness; for he was a reproach to that honourable name and…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 16:2

Twenty years old was Ahaz - Here is another considerable difficulty in the chronology. Ahaz was but twenty years old when he began to reign, and he died after he had reigned sixteen years; consequently his whole age amounted only to thirty-six years. But Hezekiah his son was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and if this were so, then Ahaz must have been the father of Hezekiah when he was but eleven years of age! Some think that the twenty years mentioned here respect the beginning of the reign of Jotham, father of Ahaz; so that the passage should be thus translated: Ahaz was twenty years of age when his father began to reign; and consequently he was fifty-two years old when he di…

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John Gill on 2 Kings 16:2

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem,.... The same number of years his father did: and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord God, like David his father; his more remote progenitor, nor even like his more immediate father, from whom he received such good instructions, and of whom he had so good an example; but grace is neither propagated by blood, nor obtained through the force of education.

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Dictionary and topics

Ahaz — Possessor. (1.) A grandson of Jonathan (1 Chr. 8:35; 9:42). (2.) The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah (2 Kings 16; Isa. 7-9; 2 Chr. 28). He gave himself up to a life of wickedness and…
Bedstead — Used in Deut. 3:11, but elsewhere rendered “couch,” “bed.” In 2 Kings 1:4; 16:2; Ps. 132:3; Amos 3:12, the divan is meant by this word.
Pekah — Open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings 15:25). Seventeen…
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Ahaz — Who reigned over Judah: Ahaz

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:1-4

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 16:2

John Gill on 2 Kings 16:2

Keil & Delitzsch

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:1-4

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 16:2

John Gill on 2 Kings 16:2

Keil & Delitzsch

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 16:2-3