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2 Chronicles 28:1
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but
he did not that which was right in
the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
2 For
he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
also molten images for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and
burnt his children in the 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 high places, and
on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria;
and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and
brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of
Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
6 For 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 king's son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
8 And the children of Israel 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 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, 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, sins
against the LORD your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken
captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of 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
have 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 armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all
the congregation.
15 And the men which were 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, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
16 At that time did
king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17 For again the
Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away
captives.
18 The
Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country,
and of the
south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and
Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the
villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
19 For the
LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he
made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but
strengthened him not.
21 For
Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD,
and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and
gave it unto
the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did
he trespass yet more against the
LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
23 For
he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which
smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the
kings of Syria
help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces
the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD,
and
he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in
every several city of Judah he made high places to
burn incense unto other gods, and
provoked to anger the LORD God of his
fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Judah 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 the sepulchres of the kings of Israel:
and
Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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