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about the heavens? (4) To bear God’s message men need fire- touched lips. (5) Who took Isaiah’s sin away ? the sera phim? John 1:29. (6) Two things are essential for preach ers of God’s Word: First, A Vision of God’s holiness; second, A vision of their own sinfulness. (7) “I have caught a glimpse of the skirts of His garments.” ' (Kepler). (8) Isaiah did not say “What shall this man do?” but “Here am I, send me." (9) Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. (Heb. 12:14).
What difference do you note between the call of Isaiah and Ezekiel? Ezek. 1:3-27. Did Israel follow looses, its first prophet? Acts 7:37-40. What did Israel do to its last prophet? Luke 11:51. How did Paul sum it up? Acts 28:25- 31. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) God is very high; His name is “the Most High.” (Luke 8:28). (2) The Most High stoops low. (Isa. 57:15). (3) “The earth is full of His glory;” how
Ahaz, The Faithless King JULY 8, 1917. LESSON II. 2 Chron. 28:1-5, 20-27. (Read 1-27. Memorize vs: 1, 2). G qlden T ext : “Without faith it is impossible to please God.”—Heb. 11:6. DAILY BIBLE READINGS
Mon., July 2—2 Chron. 28:1-15. (The Lesson). - Tues., July 3—2 Chron. 28:16-27. (The Lesson). Wed., July 4—2 Kings 16 ;l-9. Thurs., July 5—2 Kings 16:10-20. Fri., July 6—-Isaiah 22:15-25. Sat., July 7—1 Kings 21:1-10. Sun., July 8—1 Kings 21 :ll-24. EXPOSITION AND ^PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Furthermore the name of Ahaz appears in Tilgath-pileser’s Assyrian inscription of 732 B. C. On this inscription his name appears as Iauhazi, corresponding to the Hebrew Jehoahaz. The Bible historians however, dropped the “Jeho” from his name, very likely, in consequence of his faithlessness to Jehovah. His full name would indicate “Jehovah has grasped” oi “He has grasped Jehovah.” As he was untrue to his name, he has come down in history simply as “He (the one who) has grasped,” or the covetous man or the grasping man. He was the son of a good father (ch. 27 :l-5) who was “mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God” (ch. 27:6). And he was the father of a good son, Hezekiah, one of the best kings in the whole history of
v. 1. “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began'to reign, (;) and he reigned six teen years in Jerusalem: but (ayd) he did not that which was right in the sight (eyes) of the LORD, like David his ■ father" Ahaz played a prominent and an evil part in the history of the kingdom of Judah. Yet he is a person about whom the average Bible student knows but lit tle. However, he occupies a large space in the Bible record. Not pnly is the story of his life given at some length here and in 2 Kings 16:1-20, but he is also spoken of at considerable length in Isaiah 7 and 8, Indeed sixteen years of Isaiah’s prophetic activity was during the reign of Ahaz. The great prophecy, “Behold a virgin shall con ceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,” was made by Isaiah to Ahaz.
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