Passage Research
2 Kings 16 — Sermon Preparation
Ahaz pays Tiglath-pileser to attack Aram, then visits Damascus and has the Jerusalem altar replaced with a copy of the Damascene altar. Below is a research summary for 2 Kings 16, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 20
- verses
- 363 / 146
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
2 Kings 16 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָחָז | ʼÂchâz | H271 | 14 | Achaz |
| מִזְבֵּחַ | mizbêach | H4196 | 11 | altar |
| דַּמֶּשֶׂק | Dammeseq | H1834 | 6 | Damascus |
| אַשּׁוּר | ʼAshshûwr | H804 | 6 | Ashshur |
| אוּרִיָּה | ʼÛwrîyâh | H223 | 5 | Urijah |
| תִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶר | Tiglath Pilʼeçer | H8407 | 4 | Tiglath-Pileser, Tilgath-pilneser |
| עֹלָה | ʻôlâh | H5930 | 5 | step, holocaust |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on 2 Kings 16, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This chapter is wholly taken up with the reign of Ahaz; and we have quite enough of it, unless it were better. He had a good father, and a better son, and yet was himself one of the worst of the kings of Judah. I. He was a notorious idolater, ver. 1-4. II. With the treasures of the temple, as well as his own, he hired the king of Assyria to invade Syria and Israel, ver. 5-9. III. He took pattern from an idol's altar which he saw at Damascus for a new altar in God's temple, ver. 10-16. IV. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Kings 16:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Assyria— 2 Kgs 16:10
- Damascus— 2 Kgs 16:10
- Jerusalem— 2 Kgs 16:2
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