John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign .] Jotham began to reign in the second of Pekah, and he reigned sixteen years, and therefore his last year would fall in the eighteenth of Pekah; but as his first year might be at the beginning of the second of Pekah, his last was towards the end of the seventeenth of Pekah’s, as here; (see 2 Kings 15:32).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God. The sin wa its own punishment. It is common for those who bring themselves int straits by one sin, to try to help themselves out by another.
Original Hebrew בשׁנת8141 שׁבע7651 עשׂרה6240 שׁנה8141 לפקח6492 בן1121 רמליהו7425 מלך4427 אחז271 בן1121 יותם3147 מלך4428 יהודה׃3063
