2 Chronicles 28:20-23

²⁰And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

²¹For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

²²And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.

²³For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

2 Chronicles 28 recounts the disastrous reign of King Ahaz of Judah, a king who did not follow in the footsteps of his father Jotham but instead walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. The chapter details his descent into idolatry, his military defeats at the hands of both Syr

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