2 Chronicles 28:1-4
Ahaz rules Judah as king
1 Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king. He ruled Judah as king in Jerusalem for 16 years. He did not do the things that the Lord said were good. So he was not like his ancestor, King David.
28:1Ahaz ruled from about 731 BC.
2 He lived in the same bad way that the kings of Israel did. He also used metal to make images of the god Baal. 3 He offered sacrifices in Ben-Hinnom Valley. He even caused his sons to walk through fire. In this way he copied the terrible sins of the other nations in Canaan. Those were the nations that the Lord had chased out so that the Israelites could live there. 4 Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees.
28:3The Ben-Hinnom Valley was to the south of Jerusalem. It was a place where Judah's people did disgusting things. ‘Walk through fire’ may mean that Ahaz burned his sons as a sacrifice to false gods.
