Ahaz: Possessor.1. A grandson of Jonathan
(1 Chronicles 8:35; 9:42)
2. The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah
(2 Kings 16:1)ff
(Isaiah 7:1-Isaiah 9:21; 2 Chronicles 28:1)ff He gave himself up to a life of
wickedness and idolatry. Notwithstanding the remonstrances and
warnings of Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah, he appealed for help
against Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah, king of Israel, who
threatened Jerusalem, to Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, to
the great injury of his kingdom and his own humilating subjection
to the Assyrians
(2 Kings 16:7,9; 15:29) He also introduced among
his people many heathen and idolatrous customs
(Isaiah 8:19; 38:8)
(2 Kings 23:12) He died at the age of thirty-five years, after
reigning sixteen years (B.C. 740 and was succeeded by his son
Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was "not brought into the
sepulchre of the kings."
