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Week 32, Day 5 — 2 Kings 15-16

Jeremy Paschall
08/04/24 - Podcast

And now, a minute with the Word…

Despite the largely positive examples of his father (Jotham) and grandfather (Uzziah), Judah’s King Ahaz “walked in the way of the kings of Israel,” i.e. idolatry, and “even burned his son as an offering” (2 Kings 16.3), like the heathens God had dispossessed from Canaan. Furthermore, he stripped the temple of precious metals for tribute to Assyria’s king Tiglath-pileser (verses 7-8), replaced the bronze altar with one fashioned like “the altar that was at Damascus” (verses 10-16), and otherwise remodeled the temple and its furnishings (verses 17-18). Sadly, it is not always like father, like son, as in the case of Ahaz; and sometimes, thankfully, as in the case of Ahaz’s son, Hezekiah. Stay tuned.