2 Chronicles 28:25
Verse 25 of 27. The 28th of 36 chapters in 2 Chronicles, in History.
21For 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.
22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.
23For 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.
24And 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.
25And 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.
26Now 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.
27And 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.
2 Chronicles 28:25 in the World English Bible
In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to anger.Read 2 Chronicles 28:25 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 28:25
And in the cities of Judah, either by his power or by his purse, perhaps by both, he erected high places for the people to burn incense to what idols they pleased, as if on purpose to provoke the God of his fathers, v. 25. (3.) He cast off God himself; for he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus (v. 23), not because he loved them, for he thought they smote him; but because he feared them, thinking that they…
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