Musar for Sanhedrin 207:5

ושגגתה עולה זדון דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב אלמלי הלווהו יהונתן לדוד שתי ככרות לחם לא נהרגה נוב עיר הכהנים ולא נטרד דואג האדמי ולא נהרג שאול ושלשת בניו

Now, why did they not include Ahaz?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra, 103b. ');">⁹</span> — R. Jeremiah b. Abba said: Because he was placed between two righteous men, Jotham and Hezekiah. R. Joseph said: Because he was abashed before Isaiah, as it is written, Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the field of the kobes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] Isa. VII, 3. ');">¹⁰</span>

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