2 Chronicles 28:19

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The LORD humiliated Judah because of King Ahaz of Israel, for he encouraged Judah to sin and was very unfaithful to the LORD.

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  • 2 Chr 21:2 : 2 Jehoram’s Reign His brothers, Jehoshaphat’s sons, were Azariah, Jechiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All of these were sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel.
  • Job 40:12 : 12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
  • Ps 106:41-43 : 41 He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. 42 Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority. 43 Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.
  • Prov 29:23 : 23 A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment, because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 You follow Omri’s edicts, and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city’s inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you.”
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 Because you say,“I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, 18 take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 (Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)
  • Gen 3:7 : 7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
  • Gen 3:11 : 11 And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
  • Exod 32:25 : 25 Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
  • 1 Sam 2:7 : 7 The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

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  • 2 Chr 28:20-25
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    20King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.

    21Ahaz 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.

    22During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the LORD.

    23He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. He reasoned,“Since the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.

    24Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the LORD’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

    25In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 28:16-17
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    16At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help.

    17The Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried off captives.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the LORD and led Judah away from the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19-21
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    19Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the LORD their God; they followed Israel’s example.

    20So the LORD rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

    21He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the LORD and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.

  • 2 Kgs 24:3
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    3Just as the LORD had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.

  • 2 Kgs 16:18-19
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    18He also removed the Sabbath awning that had been built in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway to the LORD’s temple, on account of the king of Assyria.

    19The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:9
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    9But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • 2 Chr 20:35
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    35Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who did evil.

  • 2 Kgs 16:7-9
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    7Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying,“I am your servant and your dependent. March up and rescue me from the power of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked me.”

    8Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the LORD’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute to the king of Assyria.

    9The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; he attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people to Kir and executed Rezin.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
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    5The LORD his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28-29
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    28He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

    29During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people to Assyria.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
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    1Ahaz’s Reign Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what pleased the LORD, in contrast to his ancestor David.

    2He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

  • Isa 7:1
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    1Ahaz Receives a Sign During the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it.

  • Lam 2:2
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    2ב(Bet) The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

  • Jer 15:4
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    4I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.”

  • 2 Chr 13:18
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    18That day the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said concerning the words you have heard:

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
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    5At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz, but were unable to conquer him.

  • Mal 2:11
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    11Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!

  • Lam 1:8
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    8ח(Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
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    11“King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
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    3He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

  • Isa 7:17
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    17The LORD will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah– the king of Assyria!”

  • 2 Kgs 15:37
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    37In those days the LORD prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah.

  • Jer 18:13
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    13Therefore, the LORD says,“Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin. But she has done something utterly revolting!

  • Isa 3:8
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    8Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 16:1
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    1Ahaz’s Reign over Judah In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.

  • Jer 44:22
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    22Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

  • 2 Chr 33:11
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    11So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:12
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    12Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16“This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the things in the scroll which the king of Judah has read.

  • Isa 7:10
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    10The LORD again spoke to Ahaz:

  • Ezek 16:28
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    28You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.