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AHAZ (Heb. for "[Yahweh] holds ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AHAZ (Heb. for "[Yahweh] holds ")  , son of Jotham, See also:grand-son of See also:Uzziah or See also:Azariah and See also:king of See also:Judah . After the See also:death of See also:Menahem, Pekah, king of See also:Israel, and Rezin (rather Rasun), king of See also:Syria, allied against See also:Assyria, invaded Judah, and laid See also:siege to See also:Jerusalem in the See also:hope of setting up one of their puppets upon the. See also:throne . At the same See also:time the Edomites recovered Elath on the Gulf of Akabah (so read in 2 See also:Kings xvi . 6; cp. also 2 Chron. See also:xxviii . 16 sqq.) and Judah was isolated . Notwithstanding the counsel of See also:Isaiah (Is. vii . I-17), See also:Ahaz lost See also:heart and used the See also:temple funds to See also:call in the aid of Tiglath-pileser IV., who after attacking the See also:Philistines destroyed the See also:power of Syria, taking care to exact heavy See also:tribute from Judah, which led to further despoliation of the temple . It was as a See also:vassal that Ahaz presented himself to the See also:Assyrian king at See also:Damascus, and he brought back religious innovations (2 Kings xvi. to sqq.; for the See also:priest Urijah see Is. viii . 2) and new ideas to which he proceeded to give effect . His buildings are referred to in 2 Kings xx . I1, See also:xxiii . 12; cf. perhaps Jer. xxii .

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art See also:thou a true king because thou viest with Ahaz " (see the LXX.) . Ahaz was succeeded by his son See also:Hezekiah . On the See also:ritual changes which he introduced see W . R . See also:Smith, Relig. of Semites (2), pp . 485 sqq . ;.and on his reign, idem, Prophets of Israel (2), pp . 415 sqq . On 2 Kings xvi . 3 (cf . 2 Chron. xxviii . 3) see See also:MOLOCH .

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