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28 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for sixteen years. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Eternal, as his ancestor David had done; 2 he lived on the lines of the kings of Israel, making metal images for the Baals; 3 he also burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and burned his children in the flames, following the abominable practice of the pagans whom the Eternal had dispossessed to make room for Israel; 4 he sacrificed and burnt incense at the shrines, on the hill-tops, and under every spreading tree.
5 So the Eternal his God let him fall into the hands of the king of Aram; the Aramaeans defeated him and carried off a vast number of his people as prisoners, taking them away to Damascus. He also fell into the hands of the king of Israel, who defeated him in a crushing disaster; 6 in a single day Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand men in Judah, all of them brave soldiers, because they had abandoned the Eternal the God of their fathers; 7 Zichri, an Ephraimite hero, killed prince Maaseiah, Azrikam the royal treasurer, and Elkanah the vizier; 8 and the Israelites made prisoners of two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, boys, and girls, besides carrying off rich plunder, which they took to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the Eternal was there, called Oded. He went out to meet the army on its return to Samaria, and said to them, “It was because the Eternal the God of your fathers was angry with Judah, that he has put them into your power, and you have massacred them with a fury that has resounded high as heaven itself. 10 And now you intend to hold these folk of Judah and Jerusalem as your slaves, male and female? Have not you, even you, sins of your own against the Eternal your God? 11 Listen; send back the prisoners you have captured from your kinsfolk, for the fierce anger of the Eternal rests upon you.” 12 Some chiefs of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, also protested against the soldiers who had returned from the war. 13 “You must not bring in the prisoners here,” they declared, “for what you mean to do will make us incur fresh guilt before the Eternal, in addition to our sins and guilt--for great is our guilt, and God’s fierce wrath is against Israel.” 14 So the armed men left the prisoners and the plunder in front of the nobles and all the community; 15 whereupon the men already mentioned rose and took the plunder to clothe the naked prisoners, arraying them in dress and sandals, giving them food and drink, and anointing them; after which they mounted all the feeble prisoners on asses, and took them back to their kinsmen at Jericho, the town of palm-trees; then they went back to Samaria.
16 It was then that king Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria; 17 for the Edomites had once more defeated Judah and carried off prisoners, 18 while the Philistines had raided the towns in the lowlands and the Negeb of Judah, capturing Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soko, Timnah, and Gimzo, with their townships, and settling there. 19 For the Eternal had brought Judah low on account of king Ahaz, who had behaved wantonly in Judah and broken faith badly with the Eternal. 20 Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria did come to him, but he proved a burden to him, instead of a strength. 21 For Ahaz rifled treasure from the temple of the Eternal and from the royal palace and from the nobles, to make a present for the king of Assyria; but it was of no avail.
22 In his hour of trouble he sinned still worse against the Eternal, did this king Ahaz; 23 for he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus who had defeated him, thinking that as the Aramaean gods helped the Aramaean kings, he would sacrifice to them to gain their help. But they proved the ruin of him and of all Israel. 24 Ahaz further collected all the articles belonging to the temple of God, broke them to pieces, and closed the doors of the temple of the Eternal. 25 He put up altars in every comer of Jerusalem, erected shrines in each and every town of Judah for burning incense to foreign gods, and so vexed the Eternal the God of his fathers.
26 The rest of his acts, and his whole career, from first to last, are described in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. Then Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried inside Jerusalem; they would not take him to the tombs of the kings. Hezekiah his son reigned instead of him.
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