After the sordid stories of chapter 15, we go back south where the good kings were. Ahaz, the son of good king Jotham, comes to the throne. And then—he chooses to walk in the ways of the kings of the north! This is the king to whom Isaiah made the prophecy of the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7). The depravity of this man and his reign is all the more disgusting when we remind ourselves that he—as we—had two clear choices and he chose wrong—he chose sin.
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