Ahaz’s idolatry, 2Ki_16:1-4. Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, war against him: he hireth Tiglath-pileser against them, 2Ki_16:5-9. Ahaz goeth to Damascus to meet the king of Assyria; seeth an altar; the pattern whereof he sends to Urijah, who maketh one like it at Jerusalem: Ahaz sacrificeth on it, 2Ki_16:10-16. He spoileth the temple: Hezekiah succeedeth him, 2Ki_16:17-20.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah; of which See Poole "2Ki_15:30".