2 Chronicles 28:22

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

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you still be struck down? Why do you continue to rebel? Every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.
  • Ezek 21:13 : 13 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
  • Rev 16:9-9 : 9 They were scorched by the intense heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues. But they refused to repent and glorify him. 10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony, 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, but they refused to repent of their deeds.
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
  • Esth 7:6 : 6 Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.

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  • 2 Chr 28:19-21
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    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.

    21Ahaz 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.

  • 2 Chr 28:23-27
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    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.

    26The rest of his acts and all of his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

    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 28:16
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    16At that time, King Ahaz sent for help from the kings of Assyria.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 16:7-12
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    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 16:15-20
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    15King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, 'On the large altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, the burnt offerings of all the people of the land, their grain offerings, and their drink offerings. Then, you shall sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offerings and the blood of the sacrifices. But the bronze altar will be for my personal use for inquiry.'

    16Uriah the priest did everything just as King Ahaz had commanded.

    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.

    20Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David. His son Hezekiah succeeded him as king.

  • 2 Kgs 16:1-5
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    1In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

    2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. But he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God as David his ancestor had done.

    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.

    4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    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 Kgs 15:28
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    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.

  • Isa 14:28
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    28In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:

  • Isa 7:10
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    10Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz,

  • Isa 7:1
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    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 Chr 20:35
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    35Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52
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    52Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
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    16But after Uzziah became strong, his heart was lifted up with pride, leading to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 29:19
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    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 13:22
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    22Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25
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    25In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.

  • 2 Kgs 9:29
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    29In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24He 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.

  • 2 Chr 32:25-26
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    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.

    26However, Hezekiah humbled himself, along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the LORD's wrath did not come upon them during Hezekiah's days.

  • 2 Kgs 9:23
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    23Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, 'Treachery, Ahaziah!'

  • 2 Chr 33:23
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    23But he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

  • 2 Chr 32:16
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    16His servants continued to speak against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

  • 2 Kgs 8:27
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    27He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, like the house of Ahab had done, since he was related by marriage to the house of Ahab.

  • Isa 7:12
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    12But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.'

  • 2 Chr 22:3
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    3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him to do evil.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
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    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin, and he did not turn away from them.