19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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.
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)Here is, I. Ahaz abusing the temple, not the building itself, but some of the furniture of it. 1. He defaced the bases on which the lavers were set ( 1 Kgs. 7:28 , 29 ) and took down the molten sea, 2 Kgs. 16:17. These the priests used for washing; against them therefore he seems to have had a particular spite. It is one of the greatest prejudices that can be done to religion to obstruct the purif…
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