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Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn`t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
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A Dishonorable Burial
Commentators highlight that King Ahaz was buried in Jerusalem but pointedly excluded from the royal tombs. This was not an oversight but a deliberate act by the people. They believed a man who had lived such a wicked life should not be honored in death by lying with the good and faithful kings of Israel.
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2 Chronicles
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19th Century
Baptist
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.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 28:26)
Presbyterian
Israel gained this victory because God was wrathful with Judah and made Israel His rod of indignation. He reminds them of their own sins. It is unb…
