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2 Kings 16:19 Explained in Context
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Verse 19. 19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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Role in This Section
This verse refers Ahaz's remaining acts to Judah's annals.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 16:17–16:20
Read 2 Kings 16:19 within 2 Kings 16:17–16:20. Ahaz cuts and moves bronze furnishings and changes the royal entry because of Assyria before his death and Hezekiah's succession.
Why It Needs Context
This verse refers Ahaz's remaining acts to Judah's annals. Its force depends on the complete movement of 2 Kings 16:17–16:20, not on this line by itself.
Read 2 Kings 16:17–20 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 16:17–16:20 forms one scene or regnal notice: Ahaz cuts and moves bronze furnishings and changes the royal entry because of Assyria before his death and Hezekiah's succession.
Verse 17. 17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
Verse 18. 18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
Verse 19. 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Verse 20. 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 16:17–16:20 — Ahaz alters temple furnishings under Assyrian pressureSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 16:17–16:20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 16:17–16:20
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