In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
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Interpretation
Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them, will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God.
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This thought runs through 2 Kings 16:1-4.
Glossary
- Pekah Person
- 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 ).
- Remaliah Person
- Adorned by the Lord, the father of Pekah, who conspired successfully against Pekahiah ( 2 Kings 15:25 , 27, 30, 32, 37; Isa. 7:1 , 4, 5, 9; 8:6).