Ahaz, King of Judah - Kings of Israel and Judah

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Kings of Israel & Judah

Ahaz

King of Judah · 742–726 BC

See him on the kings chart · On the timeline

His Reign

Reigned: sixteen years 2 Kings 16:2
Began to Reign: Twenty years old 2 Kings 16:2
Began: in Pekah’s 17th year 2 Kings 16:1
Before Him: Jotham
After Him: Hezekiah

In the Sight of the LORD

“did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God” 2 Kings 16:2

Ussher’s Years

Reigned 742–726 BC: “Achaz succeeding his father Jotham in the very end of the 17 year of Peka, the son of Remalia”

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.

In Israel in His Day

Pekah King of Israel · 759–739 BC
Hoshea King of Israel · 731–721 BC

Prophets in His Day

Hosea Named in Hosea 1:1
Isaiah Named in Isaiah 1:1
Micah Named in Micah 1:1

Where His Reign Is Told

Difficult Passages

Did the king of Assyria help Ahaz?

He took Damascus and slew Rezin, as Ahaz asked; but he made Ahaz his vassal, took his treasures, and left him to the Edomites and Philistines: Ahaz was distressed, not strengthened.