Text: 2 Chronicles 28:1-27
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 16:1-20
Subject: Ahaz's reign — parallel account with major expansions
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Ahaz's catastrophic reign. Kings focuses on his idolatry, his appeal to Tiglath-pileser of Assyria against the Syro-Ephraimite coalition, and his importation of the Damascus altar design into the Jerusalem temple. The Chronicler dramatically expands with material absent from Kings: massive military defeats by Aram and Israel, the prophet Oded's intervention to return 200,000 Judean captives, Edomite and Philistine invasions, and the theological climax — "In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless (מַעַל, ma'al) to the LORD" (2 Chr 28:22). Where other kings repented under pressure, Ahaz doubled down on apostasy, even closing the temple doors.