Ahaz

Family: Judah · Role: king · First appears: Book 1

Life events

• Rimmon persuades Ahaz to replace God’s altar with a Syrian-style altar for foreign offerings.(Book1)
  • With: Rimmon
  • “He also against the house of God was bold: A leper once he lost, and gained a king— Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God’s altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished.”

Book 1

• tempter: Rimmon “He also against the house of God was bold: A leper once he lost, and gained a king— Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God’s altar to disparage and displace”
• deity: Rimmon “For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished”

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Extracted from the original text of Paradise Lost. Made with Rho MD.