1 Anno decimoseptimo Phacee filii Romeliæ, regnavit Achaz filius Joatham regis Juda. 2 Viginti annorum erat Achaz cum regnare cœpisset, et sedecim annis regnavit in Jerusalem. Non fecit quod erat placitum in conspectu Domini Dei sui sicut David pater ejus, 3 sed ambulavit in via regum Israël: insuper et filium suum consecravit, transferens per ignem secundum idola gentium, quæ dissipavit Dominus coram filiis Israël. 4 Immolabat quoque victimas, et adolebat incensum in excelsis, et in collibus, et sub omni ligno frondoso. 5 Tunc ascendit Rasin rex Syriæ, et Phacee filius Romeliæ rex Israël, in Jerusalem ad præliandum: cumque obsiderent Achaz, non valuerunt superare eum. 6 In tempore illo restituit Rasin rex Syriæ, Ailam Syriæ, et ejecit Judæos de Aila: et Idumæi venerunt in Ailam, et habitaverunt ibi usque in diem hanc. 7 Misit autem Achaz nuntios ad Theglathphalasar regem Assyriorum, dicens: Servus tuus, et filius tuus ego sum: ascende, et salvum me fac de manu regis Syriæ, et de manu regis Israël, qui consurrexerunt adversum me. 8 Et cum collegisset argentum et aurum quod inveniri potuit in domo Domini et in thesauris regis, misit regi Assyriorum munera. 9 Qui et acquievit voluntati ejus: ascendit enim rex Assyriorum in Damascum, et vastavit eam, et transtulit habitatores ejus Cyrenen: Rasin autem interfecit. 10 Perrexitque rex Achaz in occursum Theglathphalasar regis Assyriorum in Damascum: cumque vidisset altare Damasci, misit rex Achaz ad Uriam sacerdotem exemplar ejus, et similitudinem juxta omne opus ejus. 11 Exstruxitque Urias sacerdos altare: juxta omnia quæ præceperat rex Achaz de Damasco, ita fecit sacerdos Urias donec veniret rex Achaz de Damasco. 12 Cumque venisset rex de Damasco, vidit altare, et veneratus est illud: ascenditque et immolavit holocausta et sacrificium suum, 13 et libavit libamina, et fudit sanguinem pacificorum quæ obtulerat super altare. 14 Porro altare æreum quod erat coram Domino, transtulit de facie templi, et de loco altaris, et de loco templi Domini: posuitque illud ex latere altaris ad aquilonem. 15 Præcepit quoque rex Achaz Uriæ sacerdoti, dicens: Super altare majus offer holocaustum matutinum, et sacrificium vespertinum, et holocaustum regis, et sacrificium ejus, et holocaustum universi populi terræ, et sacrificia eorum, et libamina eorum: et omnem sanguinem holocausti, et universum sanguinem victimæ super illud effundes: altare vero æreum erit paratum ad voluntatem meam. 16 Fecit igitur Urias sacerdos juxta omnia quæ præceperat rex Achaz. 17 Tulit autem rex Achaz cælatas bases, et luterem qui erat desuper: et mare deposuit de bobus æreis qui sustentabant illud, et posuit super pavimentum stratum lapide. 18 Musach quoque sabbati quod ædificaverat in templo: et ingressum regis exterius convertit in templum Domini propter regem Assyriorum. 19 Reliqua autem verborum Achaz quæ fecit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro sermonum dierum regum Juda? 20 Dormivitque Achaz cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David: et regnavit Ezechias filius ejus pro eo.
2 Kings 16 Clementine Vulgate
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Ahaz
A faithless king who courted Assyria and even sacrificed his own son.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 16; 2 Chron. 28; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:9
Remaliah
Named as the father of Pekah, king of Israel.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 16:5
Rezin
King of Aram who with Pekah of Israel besieged Ahaz in Jerusalem, recovered Elath, and was put to death when Tiglath-pileser captured Damascus.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5; 2 Kings 16:6
Tiglath-pileser
King of Assyria who captured Ijon, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead and Galilee in Pekah's days, deporting the people, and whom Ahaz paid to attack Aram and Israel. 1 Chronicles 5:26…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7
Uriah
The priest who built an altar in Jerusalem according to the plans King Ahaz sent from Damascus and offered on it at the king's command. Isaiah 8:2 names Uriah the priest as a…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 16:11; 2 Kings 16:15
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 1:1; 2 Kings 15:27–30; 2 Kings 15:32–33; 2 Chronicles 28:1–4; Hosea 1:1
- 2 2 Chronicles 28:1–4; 2 Kings 18:3; 1 Kings 11:4–8; 2 Kings 22:2; 2 Chronicles 17:3
- 3 Deuteronomy 12:31; Leviticus 18:21; 2 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 17:17; Psalm 106:37–38
- 4 Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23; Isaiah 57:5–7; Jeremiah 17:2; Isaiah 65:4
- 5 2 Kings 15:37; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:9–10; Isaiah 7:1–9; Isaiah 9:6–7
- 6 2 Kings 14:22; 1 Kings 9:26; Deuteronomy 2:8; 2 Chronicles 26:2
- 7 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Chronicles 28:16; 1 Chronicles 5:26; Hosea 14:3; Psalm 146:3–5
- 8 2 Kings 12:17–18; Psalm 7:15–16; Isaiah 8:7–8; 2 Kings 16:17–18; 2 Chronicles 28:20–21
- 9 Amos 9:7; Isaiah 22:6; Amos 1:3–5; Isaiah 7:16; 2 Chronicles 28:21
- 10 Romans 12:2; Isaiah 8:2; Ezekiel 23:16–17; Psalm 106:39; 2 Kings 15:29
- 11 Ezekiel 22:26; 1 Kings 21:11–13; Malachi 2:7–9; Daniel 3:7; 2 Chronicles 26:17–18
- 12 2 Chronicles 26:16–19; 2 Chronicles 28:25; Numbers 18:4–7; 1 Kings 13:1; 2 Chronicles 28:23
- 13 Leviticus 1:1–3
- 14 2 Chronicles 4:1; Exodus 40:6; Exodus 40:29; Matthew 23:35; 2 Chronicles 1:5
- 15 Exodus 29:39–41; 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Chronicles 29:21–24; Genesis 44:5
- 16 Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29; Jude 11; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Kings 16:11
- 17 2 Chronicles 29:19; Jeremiah 52:20; 2 Kings 25:13–16; 2 Chronicles 4:14–15; 2 Chronicles 28:24
- 18 Ezekiel 46:2; 2 Kings 11:5; 1 Kings 10:5
- 19 2 Chronicles 28:26; 2 Kings 15:6–7; 1 Kings 14:29; 2 Kings 15:38; 2 Kings 20:20–21
- 20 Isaiah 1:1; Matthew 1:9; 2 Chronicles 28:27–29:1; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1
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