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2 Chronicles 28 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Ahaz Reigns in Judah

(2Ki 16:1–4 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3 - and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering,[fn] according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:4 - And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

Judah Defeated

(2Ki 16:5, 6; Isa 7:1 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:6 - For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:7 - And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8 - The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:10 - And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:11 - Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:12 - Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:13 - and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:14 - So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
(2Ki 16:7–9 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:16 - At that time King Ahaz sent to the king[fn] of Assyria for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:17 - For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully[fn] and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:20 - So Tiglath-pileser[fn] king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

Ahaz’s Idolatry

(2Ki 16:12–20 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD—this same King Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24 - And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 - In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:26 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - And 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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ESV Footnotes
Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Kings 16:7); Hebrew kings
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Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser
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