II Chronicles 28 Ahaz Seeks Help from the Kings of Assyria and Finds None

 II Chronicles 28

Ahaz Seeks Help from the Kings of Assyria and Finds None

16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to ask for help.

17 Moreover the Edumeans also came and defeated Judah and carried away captives.

18 The Philistines also invaded the cities of the plain and of the Negev of Judah, and took Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Socoh with its towns, and Ginzo with its towns, and lived there.

19 For the Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he had led Judah astray, and they had transgressed greatly against the Lord.

20 Then Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him. but he put him in distress, and it did not strengthen him.

21 For Ahaz took a portion of the house of the Lord, and of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but he did not help him.

22 And when he distressed him, he transgressed yet more against the Lord; such was King Ahaz.

23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had smitten him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will 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 the Lord, and broke in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

25 And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods: thus he provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to anger.

 26 Now the rest of his acts, and 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 did not put him in the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.