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    2 Chronicles 28

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    Ahaz sought help from the gods that had defeated him, and the chapter remarks—rather briskly—that these very gods became his downfall. His troubles had already shown that Assyria was no sturdier ally: Tiglath-pileser came to him, but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

    A kingdom handed overvv. 1–8

    Ahaz reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, but his worship wandered through cast images, the Valley of Ben-hinnom, high places, hills, and green trees. The result is a grim exchange of hands: Aram carried captives to Damascus, Pekah struck Judah with great force, and in a single day 120,000 valiant men fell. Zichri killed Maaseiah, Azrikam, and Elkanah; then Israel carried off 200,000 women, sons, and daughters to Samaria, along with much plunder.

    The army returns with an awkward sermon waiting for itvv. 9–15

    Oded met the returning army at Samaria with a charge more searching than celebratory: Judah had been delivered into their hands, but they had slaughtered in a rage that reached heaven and now proposed slavery. Four Ephraimite leaders—Azariah, Berechiah, Jehizkiah, and Amasa—joined the objection. The armed men left captives and plunder before the assembly, and the named men then performed a remarkably practical piece of mercy: clothing, sandals, food, drink, wound-treatment, and donkeys. The captives were brought to Jericho and then the men returned to Samaria.

    Every proposed remedy makes the matter strangervv. 16–27

    Ahaz sent to Assyria for help while Edom attacked Judah and the Philistines occupied a string of towns. Tiglath-pileser arrived, but afflicted rather than strengthened him; even the payment gathered from the house of the LORD, the palace, and the princes did not help. In distress Ahaz became more unfaithful still, sacrificing to the gods of Damascus because they had defeated him. Then he cut the articles of the house of God to pieces, shut its doors, and filled Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with his own altars. He died and was buried in Jerusalem, outside the tombs of the kings; Hezekiah reigned in his place.

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    1. 2 Chr 28:1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

    2. 2 Chr 28:2Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.

    3. 2 Chr 28:3Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

    4. 2 Chr 28:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    5. 2 Chr 28:5So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.

    6. 2 Chr 28:6For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

    7. 2 Chr 28:7Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the governor of the palace, and Elkanah the second to the king.

    8. 2 Chr 28:8Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

    9. 2 Chr 28:9But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

    10. 2 Chr 28:10And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

    11. 2 Chr 28:11Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”

    12. 2 Chr 28:12Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.

    13. 2 Chr 28:13“You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”

    14. 2 Chr 28:14So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

    15. 2 Chr 28:15Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

    16. 2 Chr 28:16At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.

    17. 2 Chr 28:17The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.

    18. 2 Chr 28:18The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.

    19. 2 Chr 28:19For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.

    20. 2 Chr 28:20Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

    21. 2 Chr 28:21Although Ahaz had taken a portion from the house of the LORD, from the royal palace, and from the princes and had presented it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.

    22. 2 Chr 28:22In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

    23. 2 Chr 28:23He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.

    24. 2 Chr 28:24Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

    25. 2 Chr 28:25In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

    26. 2 Chr 28:26As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz and all his ways, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

    27. 2 Chr 28:27And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

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    • 6Jeremiah 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
    • 2Exodus 34:17You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
    • 32 Chronicles 33:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
    • 32 Chronicles 33:6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
    • 5Isaiah 7:1Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
    • 6Isaiah 1:28But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
    • 6Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
    • 82 Chronicles 11:4that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
    • 9Revelation 18:5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
    • 9Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
    • 9Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
    • 15Deuteronomy 34:3the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
    • 15Proverbs 25:21–22If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
    • 18Ezekiel 16:57before your wickedness was uncovered? Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.
    • 192 Chronicles 21:2Jehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; these were all sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
    • 232 Chronicles 25:14When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.

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