2 Chronicles 28:11-27
1599 Geneva Bible
11 Now therefore hear me, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken prisoners of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is toward you.
12 Wherefore certain of the chiefs of the children of [a]Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13 And said unto them, Bring not in the captives hither: for this shall be [b]a sin upon us against the Lord: ye intended to add more to our sins and to our trespass, though our trespass be great, and the fierce wrath of God is against Israel.
14 So the army left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the Congregation.
15 And the men that were [c]named by name, rose up and took the prisoners, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them meat, and gave them drink, and [d]anointed them, and carried all that were feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho the city of Palm trees to their [e]brethren: so they returned to Samaria.
16 ¶ At that time did King Ahaz send unto the [f]kings of Assyria to help him.
17 (For the Edomites came moreover, and slew of Judah, and carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also invaded the cities in the low country, and toward the South of Judah, and took Beth Shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth and Sochoh, with the villages thereof, and Timnah, with her villages, and Gimzo, with her villages, and they dwelt there.
19 For the Lord had humbled Judah, because of Ahaz king of [g]Israel: for he had brought vengeance upon Judah, and had grievously transgressed against the Lord.)
20 And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, who troubled him and did not strengthen him.
21 For Ahaz [h]took a portion (A)out of the house of the Lord and out of the king’s house and of the princes’, and gave unto the king of Assyria: yet it helped him not.
22 And in the time of his tribulation did he yet trespass more against the Lord, (this is king Ahaz)
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which [i]plagued him, and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice unto them, and they will [j]help me: yet they were his ruin, and of all [k]Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God, and brake the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every city of Judah he made high places, to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
26 Concerning the rest of his acts, and all his ways first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the Kings of Judah, and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city [l]of Jerusalem, but brought him not unto the [m]sepulchers of the Kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
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- 2 Chronicles 28:12 Which tribe was now greatest, and had most authority.
- 2 Chronicles 28:13 God will not suffer this sin, which we commit against him, to be unpunished.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 Whose name were rehearsed before, verse 12.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 Either for their wounds or weariness.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 To them of the tribe of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 28:16 To Tiglath-Pileser and those kings that were under his dominion, 2 Kings 16:7.
- 2 Chronicles 28:19 He meaneth Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help of the infidels. Read of Israel taken for Judah, 2 Chron. 15:17.
- 2 Chronicles 28:21 Hebrew, divided.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 As he falsely supposed.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 Thus the wicked measure God’s favor by prosperity and adversity: for if idolaters prosper, they make their idols gods, not considering that God punisheth them oft times whom he loveth, and giveth his enemies good success for a time, whom afterward he will destroy.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 Or, Judah and Benjamin.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 Or, in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 They buried him not in the city of David, where were the sepulchers of the kings.
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