AHAZ REIGNS OVER JUDAH Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel [2 Kings 16:2–3]. Pekah reigned twenty years before he was murdered. In the seventeenth year of