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Ahaz
Succeeds Jotham in Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:1 |
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Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do right in the sight
of the LORD as David his father had done. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:2 |
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But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel;
he also made molten images for the Baals. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:3 |
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Moreover, he burned incense in the valley of
Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in fire, according to the abominations of the nations
whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:4 |
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He sacrificed and burned incense on the high
places, on the hills and under every green tree. |
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Judah
Is Invaded |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:5 |
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Wherefore, the LORD his God delivered him into
the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him
a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered
into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:6 |
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For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah
120,000 in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of
their fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:7 |
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And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah
the king's son and Azrikam the ruler of the house and Elkanah the second to the
king. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:8 |
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The sons of Israel carried away captive of their
brethren 200,000 women, sons and daughters; and they took also a great deal of
spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:9 |
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But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name
was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them,
"Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has
delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has even
reached heaven. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:10 |
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Now you are proposing to subjugate for yourselves
the people of Judah and Jerusalem for male and female slaves. Surely, do you not
have transgressions of your own against the LORD your God? |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:11 |
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Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives
whom you captured from your brothers, for the burning anger of the LORD is against
you." |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:12 |
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Then some of the heads of the sons of Ephraim-Azariah
the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum,
and Amasa the son of Hadlai-arose against those who were coming from the battle, |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:13 |
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and said to them, "You must not bring the captives
in here, for you are proposing to bring upon us guilt against the LORD adding
to our sins and our guilt; for our guilt is great so that His burning anger is
against Israel." |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:14 |
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So the armed men left the captives and the spoil
before the officers and all the assembly. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:15 |
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Then the men who were designated by name arose,
took the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil; and they
gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them drink, anointed them with
oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city
of palm trees, to their brothers; then they returned to Samaria. |
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Compromise
with Assyria |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:16 |
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At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of
Assyria for help. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:17 |
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For again the Edomites had come and attacked
Judah and carried away captives. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:18 |
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The Philistines also had invaded the cities
of the lowland and of the Negev of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon,
Gederoth, and Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with
its villages, and they settled there. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:19 |
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For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king
of Israel, for he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was very
unfaithful to the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:20 |
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So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against
him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:21 |
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Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house
of the LORD and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it
to the king of Assyria, it did not help him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:22 |
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Now in the time of his distress this same King
Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:23 |
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For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which
had defeated him, and said, "Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them,
I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they became the downfall
of him and all Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:24 |
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Moreover, when Ahaz gathered together the utensils
of the house of God, he cut the utensils of the house of God in pieces; and he
closed the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every
corner of Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:25 |
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In every city of Judah he made high places to
burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to
anger. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:26 |
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Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from
first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and
Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 28:27 |
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So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the
kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. |
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