twenty five years old] And therefore was borne in the eleventh yeare of his father Ahaz; because Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteen years, 2 King. XVI. 2. In all, thirty six when he died. Out of which take the foresaid twenty five; and so Hezekiah must be borne in the eleventh aforesaid. A thing not impossible. But to make Ahaz to be twenty, not when himself, but his father Iotham began to reigne, as it wresteth the Text, so it implies an utter impossibility, because Iotham was but twenty five years old when he himself began to reigne, 2 King. XV. 33. which thing was not well considered by the excellent Tremellius when he asserted that opinion; nor is it much favoured, though noted by our Annotators on 2 King. XVI. 2.