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1Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for sixteen years. And he did not do what was correct in the eyes of the Lord as David his father.[#1Ch 3:13; Isa 1:1]
2And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and he cast images for Baal worship.[#Ex 34:17; Jdg 2:11]
3And he made sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and he burned his sons in the fire according to the detestable acts of the nations that the Lord had displaced before the Israelites.[#Lev 18:21; #2Ch 33:2]
4He even made sacrifices and offered incense on the high places of the hills and under every green tree.
5So the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram. They struck Ahaz and took captive many prisoners and brought them to Damascus.[#2Ki 16:5–6; Isa 7:1]
He was even given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he attacked Ahaz with a great slaughter.
6And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, and they were all strong men, but they abandoned the Lord God of their fathers.[#2Ki 15:27]
7And Zikri, a mighty warrior from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the official of the palace, and Elkanah second to the king.
8And the Israelites took captive two hundred thousand of their kin, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much plunder and brought the plunder to Samaria.[#2Ch 11:4]
9And there was a prophet there whose name was Oded, and he went out to the army as it approached Samaria and said to them, “Behold, the anger of the Lord God of your fathers is against Judah, and He gave them into your hand, and you all have killed them in a rage that has reached even to heaven.[#Isa 47:6; #Ezr 9:6]
10And now you are planning to subdue for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves. Do you all not surely have among you guilt before the Lord your God?[#Lev 25:39–46]
11And now listen to me. Return the captives whom you have taken captive from your relatives because the burning wrath of the Lord is on you all.”[#Jas 2:13]
12And some men who were heads of the people of Ephraim rose up before those coming from the war: Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai.
13And they said, “You will not bring the captives here, for guilt from the Lord will be on us, and you plan to add to our sin and guilt. Our guilt is great, and there is already a burning anger against Israel.”
14So the soldiers left the captives and spoil before the officials and all the assembly.
15Then the men who were designated by name rose and took the captives, and with the plunder they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, offered them food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying the weak on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsmen at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.[#2Ki 6:22; #Dt 34:3]
16At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
17The Edomites continually came and struck Judah and carried off captives.[#Ob 10]
18And the Philistines made raids on the cities of the lowlands of the Shephelah and the Negev of Judah. And they captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soko and its villages, Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.[#Eze 16:27, 57]
19For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Judah, for he allowed depravity to spread in Judah and continually transgressed against the Lord .[#2Ch 21:2]
20So Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came against him, but he brought him distress and not strength.[#2Ki 15:29; 1Ch 5:26]
21For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and palace of the king and the officials, and he gave it to the king of Assyria, but the king did not help Ahaz.
22And at the time that he was oppressed he increased in unfaithfulness against the Lord .[#Isa 1:5]
23So he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had devastated him, for he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they might help me.” But they were his downfall in Judah and the downfall for all of Israel.[#2Ch 25:14]
24And Ahaz gathered the vessels from the house of God, and he cut up the vessels. Then he shut the doors of the house of the Lord , and he made altars in every corner of Jerusalem.[#2Ki 16:17–18; #2Ch 29:7]
25Then in every city in Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods. So he provoked the Lord God of his fathers.[#2Ch 28:3]
26Now the rest of the acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.[#2Ki 16:19–20]
27So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem because they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his son was king in his place.[#2Ch 21:20; 24:25]