2 Crônicas 28

¹ Ahaz was twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and did not vprightly in the sight of the Lord, like Dauid his father.

² ForHe was an idolater like them.he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images forAs the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are as patrons (as were these Baalim) so have they others who are inferior and represent the great idols.Baalim.

³ Moreouer he burnt incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom, & burnt his sonnes with fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

⁴ He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

⁵ Wherefore the Lorde his God deliuered him into the hand of the King of the Aramites, & they smote him, & tooke of his, many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus: and he was also deliuered into the hande of the King of Israel, which smote him with a great slaughter.

⁶ ForWho was king of Israel.Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

⁷ And Zichri a mighty man of Ephraim slew Maaseiah the Kings sonne, and Azrikam the gouernour of the house, and Elkanah the second after the King.

⁸ And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethrenThus by the just judgment of God, Israel destroyed Judah.two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

⁹ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold,For they thought they had overcome them by their own valiantness, and did not consider that God had delivered them into their hands, because Judah had offended him.because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

¹⁰ And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you,May not God also punish you for your sins as he has done these men for theirs, seeing that yours are greater?sins against the LORD your God?

¹¹ Nowe therefore heare me, and deliuer the captiues againe, which ye haue taken prisoners of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is toward you.

¹² Then certain of the heads of the children ofWhich tribe was now greatest and had most authority.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, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we haveGod will not allow this sin which we commit against him, to go unpunished.offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel.

¹⁴ So the armie left the captiues & the spoyle before the princes and all the Congregation.

¹⁵ And the men which wereWhose name were rehearsed before, (2Ch_28:12).expressed by name 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, andEither for their wounds or weariness.anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to theirTo them of the tribe of Judah.brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

¹⁶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto theTo Tiglath Pileser and those kings who were under his dominion, (2Ki_16:7).kings of Assyria to help him.

¹⁷ (For the Edomites came moreouer, & slew of Iudah, and caryed away captiues.

¹⁸ The Philistims also inuaded the cities in the low countrey, & toward the South of Iudah, and tooke Bethshemesh, and Aialon, and Gederoth and Shocho, with the villages thereof, and Timnah, with her villages, and Gimzo, with her villages, and they dwelt there.

¹⁹ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king ofHe means Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help from the infidels. {{See 2Ch_15:17}} for when Judah was called Israel.Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

²⁰ And Tilgath Pilneeser king of Asshur came vnto him, who troubled him and did not strengthen him.

²¹ For Ahaz tooke a portion out of the house of the Lord & out of the Kings house and of the Princes, and gaue vnto the king of Asshur: yet it helped him not.

²² And in ye time of his tribulation did he yet trespasse more against ye Lord, (this is King Ahaz)

²³ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, whichAs he falsely supposed.smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they mayThus the wicked measure God's favour by prosperity and adversity: for if idolaters prosper, they make their idols gods, not considering that God often punishes them whom he loves and gives his enemies good success for a time whom afterward he will destroy.help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

²⁴ And Ahaz gathered the vessels of ye house of God, & brake the vessels of the house of God, & shut vp the doores of the house of the Lord, & made him altars in euery corner of Ierusalem.

²⁵ And in euery citie of Iudah hee made hie places, to burne incense vnto other gods, & prouoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.

²⁶ Concerning the rest of his actes, and all his wayes first and last, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah, and Israel.

²⁷ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into theThey did not bury him in the city of David, where the sepulchres of the kings were.sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.