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Ahaz's Idolatry, Defeats, and Assyrian Subjugation

2 Chronicles 28:1-27

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Chapter 28
1 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 eyes of the LORD like David his father. 2 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and he also made molten images for the Baals. 3 He made offerings with incense in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, and he burned his sons in the fire like the abominations of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every lush tree. 5 And the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they struck him and took captive from him a great captivity and brought them to Damascus. And he also gave him into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck him a great strike. 6 And Pekah son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all sons of might because they had abandoned the LORD God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, struck down Maaseiah son of the king and Azrikam, leader of the house, and Elkanah, second to the king. 8 The sons of Israel took captive from their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters. They also plundered much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 And there was a prophet of the LORD; Oded was his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria, and he said to them: “Behold, in the heat of the LORD, God of your fathers, against Judah he has given them into your hand, and you have killed among them in rage until the heavens have reached.” 10 And now, people of Judah and Jerusalem, you intend to subjugate yourselves to servants and maidservants? Do you not have guilt before the LORD your God already? 11 Now hear me and return the captivity that you have captured from your brothers, for the fierceness of the anger of the LORD is upon you. 12 And men arose from the heads of the sons of Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehochanan, Beraciah son of Meshillemoth, Hezekiah son of Salem, and Amasa son of Hadlai—against those coming from the host. 13 And they said to them, "You must not bring the captives here, for you would add to our sin and guilt against the LORD. Our guilt is already great, and his burning anger is against Israel." 14 And the armed men abandoned the captives and the spoil before the chiefs and all the assembly. 15 And the men who had been designated by names took the captives and clothed all who were naked from the spoil. They dressed them and shod them and fed them and gave them drink and anointed them and led them on donkeys, for every stumbling one. And they brought them to Jericho, the city of the palms, beside their brothers, and they returned to Samaria. 16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 And the Edomites came again and struck Judah and took captives. 18 The Philistines spread out against the cities of the Shephelah and the Negev of Judah. They captured Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Shocho and its daughters and Tamnah and its daughters and Gimzo and its daughters, and they settled there. 19 For the LORD humbled Judah on account of Ahaz king of Judah, for he let loose in Judah and acted unfaithfully against the LORD. 20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and oppressed him, and did not strengthen him. 21 For Ahaz plundered the house of the LORD and the house of the king and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but it was not for help to him. 22 And in the time of his distress he added to his unfaithfulness against the LORD—that is King Ahaz. 23 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, the ones who struck him. He said, "Because the gods of the kings of Aram—they are helping them, therefore I will sacrifice to them and they will help me." But they were to him for making him stumble, and to all Israel. 24 And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God, and he cut the vessels of the house of God in pieces, and he shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem. 25 And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers. 26 The rest of his words and all his ways, the first ones and the last ones, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 27 And Ahaz lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the burial sites of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in place of him.