“Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.” 2 Chronicles 28:22
When Reading through the Bible, it helps to have an awareness of Time. Since yesterday and the death of Joash, almost 100 years has past. For the most part, this period enjoyed the Rule of Good Kings. But then we come to King Ahaz. He is one of the 1st Apostate Kings of Judah. Though both his father, King Jotham, and grandfather, King Uzziah, were Good and Godly Kings, he started out bad and ended up worse.
At the beginning of Today’s Chapter we read that “he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel …and burned his sons in fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel.” As a Capstone to his Sad Reign, Aram had defeated him, and so he reasoned “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But we’re told “they became the downfall of him and all Israel.”
One of the consequences of Rejecting God is underscored here. To have the Truth, and to trade it for “Anything” else, will only unravel further and further until destruction. How Tragic for Ahaz, and others like him, to end up with a Train Wreck of a life on earth, and then Hell for eternity!