2 Kings 16 · Verse 1

2 Kings 16:1

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 16:1, King James Version

2 Kings 16:1 in other translations

BSBIn the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
WEBIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
ASVIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
YLTIn the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah reigned hath Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah.
DARBYIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
BBEIn the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.
WebsterIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

What does 2 Kings 16:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 16:1-4
2Ki 16:1-16. Ahaz' Wicked Reign over Judah. 1-4. Ahaz ... did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord--[See on 2Ch 28:1.] The character of this king's reign, the voluptuousness and religious degeneracy of all classes of the people, are graphically portrayed in the writings of Isaiah, who prophesied at that period. The great increase of worldly wealth and luxury in the reigns of Azariah and Jotham had introduced a host of corruptions, which, during his reign, and by the influence of Ahaz, bore fruit in the idolatrous practices of every kind which prevailed in all parts of the kingdom (see 2Ch 28:24).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

Ahaz begins to reign, acts wickedly, and restores idolatry in Judea, 2Kgs 16:1-4. Rezin, king of Syria, besieges Jerusalem, but cannot take it; he takes Elath, and drives the Jews thence, 2Kgs 16:5, 2Kgs 16:6. Ahaz hires Tiglath-pileser against the king of Syria and the king of Israel, and gives him the silver and gold that were found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, 2Kgs 16:7, 2Kgs 16:8. Tiglath-pileser takes Damascus and slays Rezin, 2Kgs 16:9. Ahaz goes to meet him at Damascus: sees an altar there, a pattern of which he sends to Urijah, the priest; and orders him to make one like it, which he does, 2Kgs 16:10-15. He makes several alterations in the temple; dies; and Hezekiah his son reigns in his stead, 2Kgs 16:16-20.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 16:1-9
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. The sin was its own punishment. It is common for those who bring themselves into straits by one sin, to try to help themselves out by another.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Kings 16:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בִּשְׁנַת֙bish.Natin yearH8141
שְׁבַֽע\־she.va'-seven-H7651
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה'es.RehteenH6240
שָׁנָ֔הsha.NahyearH8141
לְפֶ֖קַחle.Fe.kachof PekahH6492
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
רְמַלְיָ֑הוּre.mal.Ya.huRemaliahH7425
מָלַ֛ךְma.Lakhhe became kingH4427
אָחָ֥ז'a.ChazAhazH271
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
יוֹתָ֖םyo.TamJothamH3147
מֶ֥לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָֽה\׃ye.hu.DahJudahH3063

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 16:1

  • Isaiah 1:1

    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

  • 2 Kings 15:27-30

    In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kings 15:32-33

    In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

  • 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 sight of the Lord, like David his father: For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Hosea 1:1

    The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

  • Micah 1:1

    The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 7:1

    And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

  • 2 Kings 15:38

    And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Ahaz's wicked reign.
5 Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them.
10 Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, diverts the brazen altar to his own devotions.
17 He spoils the temple.
19 Hezekiah succeeds him.

seventeenth.
15:27-30,32,33
Ahaz.
15:38; 2Ch 28:1-4; Isa 1:1; 7:1; Ho 1:1; Mic 1:1

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Context

  • 2 Kings 16:1

    In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

  • 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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2 Kings 16:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
EN el año diecisiete de Peka hijo de Remalías, comenzó á reinar Achâz hijo de Jotham rey de Judá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La dix -septième année de Pékakh, fils de Remalia, Achaz, fils de Jotham, roi de Juda, commença de régner.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Im Jahre Pekachs, des Sohnes Remaljas, wurde Ahas König, der Sohn Jothams, des Königs von Juda.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Anno decimoseptimo Phacee filii Romeliæ, regnavit Achaz filius Joatham regis Juda.