These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 16
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In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham of began to reign.
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- 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in ; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of his , like his father.
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But he walked in the way of the kings of , yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom cast out from before the children of .
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Deuteronomy 12:31 Leviticus 18:21 2 Kings 21:2 Psalm 106:37-38 2 Kings 17:17 2 Kings 21:11 Ezekiel 16:47 Ezekiel 20:31 Leviticus 20:2 1 Kings 21:25-26 Deuteronomy 18:10 Jeremiah 32:35 2 Kings 23:10 2 Chronicles 33:2 Psalm 106:35 2 Chronicles 28:2-4 1 Kings 16:31-33 2 Kings 8:18 Ezekiel 20:26 2 Chronicles 33:6 1 Kings 12:28-30 2 Chronicles 22:3 2 Kings 21:6 1 Kings 14:24 Ezekiel 16:21 1 Kings 22:52-53 -
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And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
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Then Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah of came up to to war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
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At that time Rezin of Aram recovered Elath to Aram, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day.
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- 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser of , saying: ‘I am thy and thy son; come up, and me out of the hand of the of Aram, and out of the hand of the of , who rise up against me.’
- 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of , and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the of .
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And the of hearkened unto him; and the of went up against , and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
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- 10 And Ahaz went to to meet Tiglath-pileser of , and saw the that was at ; and Ahaz sent to Urijah the the fashion of the , and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
- 11 And Urijah the built an ; according to all that Ahaz had sent from , so did Urijah the make it against the coming of Ahaz from .
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And when the was come from , the saw the ; and the drew near unto the , and offered thereon.
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And he offered his burnt- and his meal-, and poured his drink-, and dashed the of his -offerings against the .
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And the brazen , which was before , he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his and the house of , and put it on the north side of his .
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And Ahaz commanded Urijah the , saying: ‘Upon the great offer the morning burnt-, and the evening meal-, and the king’s burnt-, and his meal-, with the burnt- of all the people of the land, and their meal-, and their drink-offerings; and dash against it all the of the burnt-, and all the of the ; but the brazen shall be for me to look to.’
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Exodus 29:39-41 2 Chronicles 29:21-24 1 Kings 8:64 2 Kings 18:4 Ezekiel 46:12-14 2 Chronicles 29:35 Numbers 28:2-10 Daniel 12:11 2 Kings 3:20 Isaiah 2:6 2 Chronicles 7:4-5 Hosea 4:12 1 Kings 3:4 2 Chronicles 29:32 Ezekiel 46:4-7 2 Samuel 6:17-18 Daniel 9:27 2 Chronicles 33:6 Daniel 11:31 2 Kings 16:14 Leviticus 4:13-26 Genesis 44:5 Daniel 9:21 -
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Thus did Urijah the , according to all that Ahaz commanded.
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And Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.
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And the covered place for the that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he unto the house of , because of the of .
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Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of ; and his son reigned in his stead.
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