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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 16:1–4, “In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.”
Ahaz followed his father on the throne of Judah in Jerusalem. He began his reign when he was twenty years old. Once he took the power associated with the throne he forgot the training his father had given and followed the practices of the former inhabitants of the Land. He chose to make the habits that many local people followed in an informal way into the formal religion of the Land. He even went so far as the burn his own son as a sacrifice to the heathen gods like the Moabites(see 2 Kings 3: 27). Before long, everyone was worshipping the heathen gods and no longer worshipped their own true God.
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