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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ahaz. Every Ahaz in the Bible

    person

    Ahaz

    אָחָזἈχάζ

    Ahaz, son of Jotham, reigned as king of Judah for 16 years.

    verses
    37
    first named
    2 Kings 15:38
    last named
    Matthew 1:9
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Ahaz?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Ahaz was the son of Jotham and the eleventh king of Judah. He reigned for 16 years in Jerusalem, beginning at the age of 20. Ahaz did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but followed the ways of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering and sacrificed to idols on the high places. (2Ki.16.1-4; 2Ch.28.1-4)

    During his reign, Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, attacked Jerusalem but could not conquer it. (2Ki.16.5; Isa.7.1) The prophet Isaiah encouraged Ahaz to trust in the Lord, but Ahaz instead sought help from Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, offering him tribute. (2Ki.16.7-9; Isa.7.3-12).

    Ahaz adopted pagan practices, including building a new altar based on a design from Damascus and offering sacrifices on it. He cut up the temple articles and closed the doors of the Lord's temple. (2Ki.16.10-18; 2Ch.28.24) Ahaz faced military defeats and became increasingly unfaithful to the Lord. (2Ch.28.5-8,16-25).

    Hezekiah, Ahaz's son, succeeded him as king. Hezekiah repaired and purified the temple, which had been neglected during Ahaz's reign. (2Ch.29.3-19) The reign of Ahaz was marked by idolatry and unfaithfulness to God, leading to political turmoil and religious decline in Judah. (2Ki.16.2-4; 2Ch.28.1-4,22-25).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Ahaz 10 of 15 entities the graph connects to Ahaz, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 8. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.DavidChild of · 964 versesHezekiahFather of · 5 events · 116 versesKinshipJudah6 events · 1,023 versesLORD6 events · 1,004 versesJerusalem5 events · 888 versesHill4 events · 68 versesDamascus4 events · 55 versesIsaiah3 events · 54 versesHigh Place4 events · 53 versesAbomination2 events · 49 versesEventsAhaz

    The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.

    Child of

    Father of

    Partner of

    • Abiregistry, no verse

    Stands in the same events as

    and 23 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Ahaz happens All 3 places the claims about Ahaz reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Damascus, Jerusalem, Topheth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Ahaz there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.DamascusJerusalemTopheth
    Divided MonarchyAll 3 places the claims about Ahaz reach

    The pattern

    Where Ahaz is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 37 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES27 VERSESISAIAH7 VERSESMATTHEW1 VERSE11 books and 313 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 37 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES27 VERSESISAIAH7 VERSESMATTHEW1 VERSE11 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Ahaz is named in 37 verses, and the name is written 40 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 37, across 7 books. The name is written 40 times in them.

    1. 2 Kings17 verses

      15:3816:116:216:516:716:816:1016:1116:1516:1616:1716:1916:2017:118:120:1123:12

    2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      3:13

    3. 2 Chronicles9 verses

      27:928:128:1628:1928:2128:2228:2428:2729:19

    4. Isaiah7 verses

      1:17:17:37:107:1214:2838:8

    5. Hosea1 verse

      1:1

    6. Micah1 verse

      1:1

    7. Matthew1 verse

      1:9

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via JothamJerushaMother of King Jotham of Judah.via JothamUzziahKing of Judah, reigned 52 yearsvia AbiZechariahMentioned in the genealogy of King Hezekiahvia HezekiahHephzibahThe mother of King Manasseh of Judah.via HezekiahManassehKing of Judah, son of Hezekiah.via DavidAbigailWife of Nabal, later married Davidvia DavidAbigailSister of David; mother of Amasavia DavidAbinadabSon of Jesse, brother of Davidvia DavidAbitalOne of David's wives; mother of Shephatiah
    ElsewhereGenealogy of AhazEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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