2 Chronicles 28:21

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Ahaz took some of the treasures from the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the leaders, and gave it to the king of Assyria, but he did not help him.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For Achas spoyled the house of the LORDE, and the kynges house, and of the rulers, to geue vnto ye kynge of Assur, but it helped him not.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For Ahaz tooke a portion out of the house of the Lord & out of the Kings house and of the Princes, and gaue vnto the king of Asshur: yet it helped him not.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For Ahaz toke away a portion out of the house of the Lorde, and out of the kinges house, and out of the lordes houses, and gaue vnto the king of the Assyrians: and yet it helped him not.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it didn't help him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    though Ahaz hath taken a portion `out' of the house of Jehovah, and `out' of the house of the king, and of the princes, and giveth to the king of Asshur, yet it is no help to him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was no help to him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it didn't help him.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Ahaz gathered riches from the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 16:8-9 : 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and the treasuries of the royal palace and sent them as a gift to the king of Assyria. 9 The king of Assyria complied with him, marched up to Damascus, seized it, exiled its people to Kir, and killed Rezin.
  • 2 Kgs 18:15-16 : 15 So Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house. 16 At that time, Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
  • 2 Chr 12:9 : 9 Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
  • Prov 20:25 : 25 It is a trap for someone to dedicate something rashly and only later to reconsider their vows.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 28:22-25
    4 verses
    86%

    22During his time of distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

    23He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, for he said, 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram help them, I will sacrifice to them so they may help me.' But they were the downfall of him and all of Israel.

    24Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

    25In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • 2 Chr 28:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    19The LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been unfaithful to the LORD.

    20Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help.

  • 2 Chr 28:16
    83%

    16At that time, King Ahaz sent for help from the kings of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 16:7-12
    6 verses
    83%

    7Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, saying, 'I am your servant and your son. Come and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and the king of Israel, who are attacking me.'

    8Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and the treasuries of the royal palace and sent them as a gift to the king of Assyria.

    9The king of Assyria complied with him, marched up to Damascus, seized it, exiled its people to Kir, and killed Rezin.

    10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria. While he was there, he saw an altar and sent a detailed plan and model of the altar to Uriah the priest.

    11Uriah the priest constructed the altar following all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. By the time the king returned from Damascus, the altar was ready.

    12When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar, approached it, and offered sacrifices on it.

  • 2 Kgs 16:17-19
    3 verses
    79%

    17King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands and removed the basins from them. He also took down the sea from the bronze oxen that supported it and placed it on a stone pavement.

    18Then he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and the royal entrance to the outer court, to accommodate the king of Assyria.

    19The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, and all that he did, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 18:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand." So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah a tribute of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

    15So Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house.

    16At that time, Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
    74%

    5Then King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz but could not overpower him.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. However, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD like his ancestor David.

    2Instead, he followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even made cast images for the Baals.

  • Isa 7:1
    73%

    1In the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, marched up to Jerusalem for battle, but they could not prevail against it.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    73%

    18At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

    29In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali. He took the people into exile to Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 18:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29This is what the king says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.

    30Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us: This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’

  • Isa 7:10
    72%

    10Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz,

  • 2 Chr 28:27
    72%

    27Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not brought to the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah succeeded him as king.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
    72%

    5Therefore, the LORD his God allowed him to fall into the hands of the king of Aram. They defeated him, took a great number of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who inflicted a heavy defeat on him.

  • Isa 36:18
    72%

    18Do not let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • Isa 36:15
    71%

    15And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’

  • 2 Kgs 17:3
    71%

    3Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

  • 2 Chr 32:11
    71%

    11Isn't Hezekiah misleading you, leaving you to die by famine and thirst, by saying, 'The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria'?

  • 2 Chr 32:25
    71%

    25But Hezekiah did not respond to the kindness shown to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore, wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Isa 37:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10"This is what you are to say to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God, whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.

    11You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands by utterly destroying them. Will you be delivered?

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    71%

    3He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 33:11
    71%

    11So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  • 2 Chr 29:19
    71%

    19Moreover, all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and they are now before the altar of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 19:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10"This is what you are to say to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'

    11You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. Will you then be delivered?

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    70%

    18Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace and placed them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, with this message:

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    70%

    22But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

  • 2 Chr 32:21
    70%

    21And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and leaders and officials in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew in disgrace to his own land. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with the sword.

  • Isa 7:12
    70%

    12But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.'

  • Isa 36:7
    70%

    7But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar’?

  • 2 Kgs 16:14
    70%

    14As for the bronze altar that was before the Lord, he brought it from the front of the temple—from between his new altar and the temple of the Lord—and placed it on the north side of his new altar.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    70%

    17They attacked Judah, invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's palace, along with his sons and wives. The only son left to him was Jehoahaz, his youngest son.