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 Chronicles 28
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Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in ; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of , like his father;
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- 2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of , and made also molten images for the Baalim.
- 3 Moreover he offered in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom cast out before the children of .
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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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- 5 Wherefore his delivered him into the hand of the of Aram; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to . And he was also delivered into the hand of the of , who smote him with a great slaughter.
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For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken , the of their fathers.
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2 Kings 15:27 Isaiah 9:21 Isaiah 24:5-6 Deuteronomy 29:24-26 Isaiah 7:9 Deuteronomy 32:20 Deuteronomy 28:15 Deuteronomy 31:16-17 Jeremiah 2:19 Deuteronomy 6:14-15 Joshua 24:20 Jeremiah 15:6 Joshua 23:16 2 Kings 15:37 Isaiah 1:28 Deuteronomy 28:25 Isaiah 7:4-5 2 Chronicles 15:2 2 Kings 16:5 2 Chronicles 13:17 -
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And Zichri, a mighty man of , slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the .
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And the children of carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to .
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But a of was there, whose was Oded; and he went out to meet the host that came to , and said unto them: ‘Behold, because , the of your fathers, was wroth with , He hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto .
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And now ye purpose to bring the children of and into subjection for bondmen and bondwomen unto you; but are there not even with you acts of guilt of your own against your ?
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Now me therefore, and send back the captives, that ye have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce wrath of is upon you.’
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Then certain of the heads of the children of , Azariah the son of Jehohanan, 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,
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and said unto them: ‘Ye shall not bring in the captives hither; for ye purpose that which will bring upon us guilt against , to add unto our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against .’
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- 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
- 15 And the men that have been mentioned by rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to , the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren; then they returned to .
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At that time did Ahaz send unto the kings of to help him.
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For again the Edomites had come and smitten , and carried away captives.
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The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the Lowland, and of the South of , and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns thereof, and Timnah with the towns thereof, Gimzo also and the towns thereof; and they dwelt there.
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- 19 For brought low because of Ahaz of ; for he had cast away restraint in , and acted treacherously against .
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And Tillegath-pilneser of came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
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For Ahaz stripped the house of , and the house of the and the princes, and gave thereof unto the of ; but it helped him not.
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And in the time of his distress did he act even more treacherously against , this same Ahaz.
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- 23 For he sacrificed unto the Elohims of , which smote him; and he said: ‘Because the Elohims of the kings of Aram helped them, therefore will I to them, that they may help me.’ But they were the ruin of him, and of all .
- 24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of , and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of , and shut up the doors of the house of ; and he made him altars in every corner of .
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And in every city of he made high places to offer unto other Elohims, and provoked , the of his fathers.
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Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of and .
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- 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in ; for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of ; and his son reigned in his stead.