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Ahaz
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| 2 Kings 16:1 |
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In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king. |
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| 2 Kings 16:2 |
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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 what was right in
the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had done. |
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| 2 Kings 16:3 |
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
and even made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of
the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before the sons of Israel. |
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| 2 Kings 16:4 |
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He sacrificed and burned incense on the high
places and on the hills and under every green tree. |
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| 2 Kings 16:5 |
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Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah,
king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but
could not overcome him. |
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| 2 Kings 16:6 |
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At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath
for Aram, and cleared the Judeans out of Elath entirely; and the Arameans came
to Elath and have lived there to this day. |
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Ahaz
Seeks Help of Aram |
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| 2 Kings 16:7 |
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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king
of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son; come up and deliver me from
the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are
rising up against me." |
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| 2 Kings 16:8 |
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Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent a
present to the king of Assyria. |
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| 2 Kings 16:9 |
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So the king of Assyria listened to him; and
the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and captured it, and carried the
people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death. |
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Damascus
Falls |
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| 2 Kings 16:10 |
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Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser
king of Assyria, and saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar and its model, according to all its
workmanship. |
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| 2 Kings 16:11 |
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So Urijah the priest built an altar; according
to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thus Urijah the priest made it,
before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus. |
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| 2 Kings 16:12 |
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When the king came from Damascus, the king saw
the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it, |
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| 2 Kings 16:13 |
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and burned his burnt offering and his meal offering,
and poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on
the altar. |
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| 2 Kings 16:14 |
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The bronze altar, which was before the LORD,
he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of
the LORD, and he put it on the north side of his altar. |
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| 2 Kings 16:15 |
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Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, "Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening
meal offering and the king's burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt
offering of all the people of the land and their meal offering and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the
blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." |
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| 2 Kings 16:16 |
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So Urijah the priest did according to all that
King Ahaz commanded. |
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| 2 Kings 16:17 |
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Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands,
and removed the laver from them; he also took down the sea from the bronze oxen
which were under it and put it on a pavement of stone. |
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| 2 Kings 16:18 |
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The covered way for the sabbath which they had
built in the house, and the outer entry of the king, he removed from the house
of the LORD because of the king of Assyria. |
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Hezekiah
Reigns over Judah |
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| 2 Kings 16:19 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? |
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| 2 Kings 16:20 |
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So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place. |
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