CHAPTER EXPLORER
2 Kings 16
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20 verses in KJV · 184 outgoing cross-reference links
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Opening verses of 2 Kings 16 (KJV)
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
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.
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Historical / attribution context
Traditional writer attribution: Jeremiah
Approximate study chronology: c. 742 BC to c. 726 BC
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H4428me.lekhking · 27 occurrencesH271a.chazAhaz · 14 occurrencesH4196miz.be.achaltar · 11 occurrencesH1121benson: child · 8 occurrencesH804ash.shurAssyria · 6 occurrencesH3068ye.ho.vahLORD · 6 occurrencesH1834dam.me.seqDamascus · 6 occurrencesH1004betplace · 6 occurrencesH5930o.lahburnt offering · 5 occurrencesH3548ko.henpriest · 5 occurrencesH223u.riy.yahUriah · 5 occurrencesH8407tig.lat pil.e.serTiglath-pileser · 4 occurrencesH8141sha.nehyear · 4 occurrencesH7971sha.lachto send: depart · 4 occurrences
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