In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
The verse belongs to the history of the Jews that lays bare their own course of action. That history presents their future as the result of that course. Its chapter records part of the thousands of years in which they forged fetters that bound them in a bondage which no human power could break.
The verse belongs to the history of the Jews that lays bare their own course of action. That history presents their future as the result of that course. Its chapter records part of the thousands of years in which they forged fetters that bound them in a bondage which no human power could break.