He sacrificed ... - Other kings of Judah had allowed their people to do so. Ahaz was the first, so far as we know, to countenance the practi…

In the high places. —These are evidently distinguished from “the hills,” as two different prepositions are used in the Hebrew, jus…

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
the hills
Which none o…

Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them will go anywhere in a day of distress, rather than to God. The sin was its own …