2Chr 28
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Achaz was Alex. 20 years five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David
his father.
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But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, for he made graven images.
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And Supplied from Alex. he sacrificed to their Alex. gh idols in the valley of Benennom, and passed his children through the
fire, according
to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children
of Israel.
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And he burnt incense upon the high places, and upon the roofs, and under every shady
tree.
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And the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and he smote
him, and took captive of them a great band of prisoners, and carried him to Damascus.
Also God delivered him into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with a
great slaughter.
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And Phakee the son of Romelias king of Israel, slew in Juda in one day a hundred and
twenty thousand mighty men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
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And Zechri, Or, the a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king’s son, and Ezrican the chief of his
house, and Elcana the king’s deputy.
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And the children of Israel took captive of their brethren three hundred thousand,
women, and sons, and daughters, and they spoiled them of much property, and brought
the spoils to Samaria.
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And there was there a prophet of the Lord, his name was Oded: and he went out to meet
the host that were coming to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, the anger of the Lord
God of your fathers is upon Juda, and he has delivered them into your hands, and you
have slain them in anger, and it has reached even to heaven.
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And now you talk of keeping the children of Juda and Jerusalem for servants and handmaidens.
Behold, am I not with you to testify for the Lord your God?
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And now hearken to me, and restore the Gr. captivity prisoners of your brethren whom you have taken: for the Gr. anger of
anger fierce anger of the Lord is upon you.
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And the chiefs of the sons of Ephraim rose up, Alex. Azarias Udias the son of Joanas, and Barachias the son of Mosolamoth,
and Ezekias the son
of Sellem, and Amasias the son of Eldai, against those that came from the war,
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and said to them, You shall not bring in here the prisoners to us, for whereas sin
against the Lord is upon us, you mean to add to our sins, and to our trespass: for
our sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord is upon Israel.
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So the warriors left the prisoners and the spoils before the princes and all the congregation.
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And the men who were called by name rose up, and took hold of the prisoners, and clothed
all the naked from the spoils, and gave them garments and shoes, and gave them food
to eat, and oil to anoint themselves with, and they helped also every one that was
weak with asses, and placed them in Jericho, the city of palm-trees, with their brethren;
and they returned to Samaria.
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At that time king Achaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, and on this occasion,
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because the Idumeans had attacked him, and smitten Juda, and taken See Ps 68:18; Eph 4:8 a number of prisoners.
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Also the Philistines had made an attack on the cities of the plain country, and the
cities of the south of Juda, and taken Baethsamys, and Alex. omits the words between the brackets the things in the house
of the Lord, and the things in the house of the king, and
of the princes: and they gave to the king Ælon, and Galero, and Socho and her villages,
and Thamna and her villages, and Gamzo and her villages: and they dwelt there.
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For the Lord humbled Juda because of Achaz king of Juda, because he grievously departed
from the Lord.
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And there came against him Thalgaphellasar king of Assyria, and he afflicted him.
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And Achaz took the things that were in the house of the Lord, and the things in the
house of the king, and of the princes, and gave them to the king of Assyria: but he
was no help to him,
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but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and
king Achaz said,
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I will seek after the gods of Damascus that smite me. And he said, Seeing that as
the gods of the king of Syria themselves strengthen them, therefore will I sacrifice
to them, and they will help me. But they became a stumbling-block to him, and to all
Israel.
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And Achaz removed the vessels of the house of the Lord, and cut them in pieces, and
shut the doors of the house of the Lord, and made to himself altars in every corner
in Jerusalem:
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and in each several city in Juda he made high places to burn incense to strange gods:
and they provoked the Lord God of their fathers.
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And the rest of his acts, and his deeds, the first and the last, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
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And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; for they did
not bring him into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Ezekias his son reigned
in his stead.