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Ahaz

Also called Achaz

Mentioned in 37 verses across 7 books, first in 2 Kings 15:38. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In these stories

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At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 763 BC · died c. 726 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Historians also date this period from evidence outside the Bible, and their dates can differ from this reckoning.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Father

Jothamson of Uzziah

Spouse

Abijahdaughter of Zechariah

Children

Maaseiahson of Ahaz
Hezekiahson of Ahaz

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

God15 verses
Jothamson of Uzziah8 verses
Hezekiahson of Ahaz8 verses
David5 verses
Judah (patriarch)5 verses
Uzziahson of Amaziah4 verses
Urijah4 verses
Remaliah3 verses
Isaiah3 verses
Pekah3 verses
Hosheason of Elah2 verses
Elah2 verses
Manasseh (son of Hezekiah)2 verses
Rezin2 verses

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Jerusalemborn here; died here +2 more8 shared verses
Assyria5 shared verses
Syria3 shared verses
Damascus2 shared verses
Samaria2 shared verses
Kidron1 shared verse
Field1 shared verse
Moresheth1 shared verse

In the Bible

The first 10 of 37 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Kings

2 Kings 15:38
And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David his father. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
2 Kings 16:1
In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
2 Kings 16:2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
2 Kings 16:5
Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
2 Kings 16:7
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
2 Kings 16:8
Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:10
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
2 Kings 16:11
And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
2 Kings 16:15
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
2 Kings 16:16
So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

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Events

Events the dataset lists Ahaz as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 742 BC
Reign of Ahaz2 Kings 16:1–20 · at Jerusalem
c. 726 BC
Death of Ahaz2 Kings 16:20 · at Jerusalem

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah ([2 Kings 16](/2kgs#2Kgs.16); [Isa. 7](/isa#Isa.7)-9; [2 Chr. 28](/2chr#2Chr.28)). He gave himself up to a life of wickedness and idolatry. Notwithstanding the remonstrances and warnings of Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah, he appealed for help against Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah, king of Israel, who threatened Jerusalem, to Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, to the great injury of his kingdom and his own humilating subjection to the Assyrians (2 Kings 16:7, 9; 15:29). He also introduced among his people many heathen and idolatrous customs (Isa. 8:19; 38:8; 2 Kings 23:12). He died at the age of thirty-five years, after reigning sixteen years (B.C. 740-724), and was succeeded by his son Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was “not brought into the sepulchre of the kings.”