He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made cast idols for worshiping the Baals . His twenty-five year old son Hezekiah succeeded him.

Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

His twenty-five year old son Hezekiah succeeded him. Ahaz was 20 years old when his son Hezekiah was born!

Doesn't this mean that Ahaz was a ten or eleven year old father?”

He was a weak and idolatrous king.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he succeeded his father Jotham to the throne of Judea.

He was more zealous for the Lord than any of his predecessors (2 Kings 18:5). He even made his son walk through the fire of Moloch, aping the abominable custom of the Phoenicians. The 25th birth date of Ahaz in Judah is the same as Hoshea of Israel's 03rd year reign. Another son, Hezekiah, who was to become king after Ahaz, was saved from the flames of the idol by his mother.

Five years later Father Ahaz is 25 years old. “According to 2 Kings 16:2, 20, 18:1-2 Ahaz was thirty-six years old when he died.


Twenty and five years old—According to this statement (compare 2Ki 16:2), he must have been born when his father Ahaz was no more than eleven years old. 2 Chron 28:1-4 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Hezekiah, a son of the wicked King Ahaz, reigned over the southern kingdom of Judah for twenty-nine years, from c. 715 to 686 BC. Paternity at an age so early is not unprecedented in the warm climates of the south, where the human frame is matured sooner than in our northern regions. A father(Ahaz) son (Hezekiah) relationship would place son Hezekiah at the age of 05 in this year.

He began his reign at age 25 (2 Kings 18:2).