KJ3 Literal Translation
2 Chronicles 28
Ahaz reigns wickedly and is greatly afflicted by the Syrians. Sending for aid to Assyria he is not helped. In his distress he grows more idolatrous. He dies. Hezekiah succeeds him.
1Ahaz was a son of twenty years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do the right in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father David,
2but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
3And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, like the disgusting acts of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the sons of Israel;
4and sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
5And Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him, and captured from him a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he also was given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck him with a great slaughter.
6And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all sons of strength, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
7And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the leader of the house, and Elkanah, second to the king.
8And the sons of Israel seized two hundred thousand of their brothers, wives, sons and daughters, and also they plundered from them much plunder, and they brought the plunder to Samaria.
9And a prophet of Jehovah was there, Oded his name; and he went out before the army that had come in to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, in the fury of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain among them in rage; it has reached to the heavens.
10And now you are planning to tread down the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for male slaves, and for slave-girls to yourselves; but are not with you causes of guilt, solely yours, before Jehovah your God?
11And now, hear me, and return the captives you have seized from your brothers, for the heat of the anger of Jehovah is on you.
12And men of the leaders of the Ephraimites: Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah, Meshillemoth's son, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming in from the army.
13And they said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for guilt against Jehovah is on us; you are planning to add to our sin and to our guilt, for plenty of guilt is ours, and the glow of anger on Israel.
14And the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.
15And the men who had been called by name rose and took the captives, and they clothed all the naked ones from the plunder; yea, they clothed them and shod them, and made them eat and drink, and anointed them, and led them out on asses, even every feeble one, and made them go to Jericho, the city of palms, near their brothers, and returned to Samaria.
16At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him.
17And again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and had seized a captivity.
18And the Philistines had raided against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and captured Beth-shemesh and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its daughter villages, and Timnah and its daughter villages, and Gimzo and its daughter villages, and dwelt there.
19For Jehovah had humbled Judah because of Ahaz the king of Israel, for he loosed immorality in Judah, and acted unfaithfully against Jehovah.
20And Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came against him and distressed him, but did not make him strong,
21though Ahaz had taken a lot from the house of Jehovah and from the house of the king, and from the rulers, and had given to the king of Assyria, and it was not for help to him.
22And in the time of his distressing he acted more unfaithfully against Jehovah, this King Ahaz.
23And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus who had struck him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me; but they were to cause him and all Israel to stumble.
24And Ahaz gathered all the utensils of the house of God, and he cut up the utensils of the house of God and shut the doors of the house of Jehovah. And he made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.
25And in every city, even the cities of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and angered Jehovah the God of his fathers.
26And the rest of his acts, and all his ways, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
27And Ahaz lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, but did not bring him to the graves of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
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