2 Chronicles 28
28:1Ahaz was a son twenty and five years old in his taking reign, and sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem. And He did not do the upright thing before the lord as David his father.
28:2And he went according to the ways of the kings of Israel, for he made carved images to the Baals.
28:3And he sacrificed in the ravine of the Son of Hinnom, and led through his children in fire, according to the abominations of the nations which the lord removed from the face of the sons of Israel.
28:4And he burned incense upon the high places, and upon the roofs, and underneath every tree of the woods.
28:5And the lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. And he struck among him, and he captured for captivity many of them, and led them unto Damascus. And also into the hands of the king of Israel he delivered him, and he struck in him a great calamity.
28:6And Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel killed in Judah in one day a hundred and twenty thousand mighty men of strength, because they left the lord the God of their fathers.
28:7And Zechri the mighty man of Ephraim killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the leader of his house, and Elkanah the second of the king.
28:8And the sons of Israel took captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, and sons, and daughters; and they despoiled many spoils of them, and they brought the spoils to Samaria.
28:9And the prophet of the lord was there -- Oded was the name to him. And he came forth to meet the force of the ones coming to Samaria. And he said to them, Behold, the anger of the lord the God of your fathers is upon Judah, and he delivered them into your hands. But you killed among them in anger, and it came unto the heavens.
28:10And now you speak to acquire the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for menservants and maidservants! Behold I am not with you to testify to the lord your God, the trespasses are with you against the lord your God.
28:11And now hear me and return the captivity which you captured from your brethren! for the anger of the rage of the lord is upon you.
28:12And the rulers of the sons of Ephraim rose up (Azariah the son of Johanan, and Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai) unto the ones coming from the war.
28:13And they said to them, In no way should you bring the captivity here to us, for in trespassing you speak against the lord upon us to add upon our sins, and upon our ignorance, for our sin is great, and the anger of the rage of the lord is upon Israel.
28:14And the warriors released the captivity and the spoils before the rulers and all the assembly.
28:15And men rose up who were called by name, and they took hold of the captivity. And all the naked they covered from the spoils, and clothed them, and tied sandals upon them, and gave to them to eat and to drink, and to anoint. And they assisted them by beasts of burden for all the infirm. And they placed them in Jericho, the city of palms, with their brethren. And they returned to Samaria.
28:16In that time king Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to give help to him.
28:17And in this the Edomites attacked and struck in Judah, and they took captive a captivity.
28:18And the Philistines attacked against the cities of the plain, and of the south of Judah, and they took Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and her towns, and Timnah and her towns, and Gimzo and her towns. And they dwelt there.
28:19For the lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Judah, because he uncovered nakedness in Judah, and he revolted in a defection from the lord.
28:20And Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him, and afflicted him.
28:21And Ahaz took the things in the house of the lord, and the things in the house of the king, and of the rulers, and gave to the king of Assyria; but he was not for a help to him,
28:22but only to afflict him. And he proceeded to leave from the lord, and king Ahaz said,
28:23I will inquire of the gods of Damascus, the ones beating me. And he said, Because the gods of the king of Syria strengthens them, therefore I shall sacrifice to them, and they will assist me. And they became to him as an impediment, and to all Israel.
28:24And Ahaz removed the items of the house of the lord, and he cut them in pieces, and locked the doors of the house of the lord. And he made for himself altars in every corner in Jerusalem,
28:25and in every city; and in a city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to alien gods. And he provoked to anger the lord God of his fathers.
28:26And the rest of his words, and his actions, the first and last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.
28:27And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they entombed him in the city of David; for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned instead of him.