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Rezin & Pekah Come
Against Judah
2 Kings 14:23 - 16:20
(2 Chronicles 28:1-8)
Pekahiah Reigns in Israel
(2 Kings 15:23) In the fiftieth year of Azariah king
of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned two years.
| (24) And he did evil in the sight of the LORD;
he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
had made Israel sin. |
(25) Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, an officer of his, conspired against him and killed him in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's
house, along with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of Gilead. He
killed him and reigned in his place.
(26) Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, indeed they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Pekah Reigns in Israel
(27)
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah
became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
| (28) And he did evil
in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. |
(29) In the days of Pekah
king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
(30) Then Hoshea the son of Elah led a
conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck and killed him; so he
reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
(31) Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, indeed they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Jotham Reigns in Judah (32)
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
Jotham the son
of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign. (33) He was twenty-five years old when
he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
| (34) And he did what was right in the sight of the
LORD; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had
done. (35) However the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed
and burned incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of
the LORD. |
(36) Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? (37) In those days the LORD
began to send Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
(38) So Jotham rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
City of David his father. Then Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
Ahaz Reigns in Judah
(16:1)
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham,
king of Judah, began to reign. (2) Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem;
| and he did not do what was right in
the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had
done. (3) But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son
pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD
had cast out from before the children of Israel. (4) And he sacrificed and burned
incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. |
(5) Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came
up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
(6) At that time Rezin king of Syria captured Elath for Syria, and drove the men
of Judah from Elath. Then the Edomites went to Elath, and dwell there to this
day.
(7) So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your
servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and
from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me."
(8) And Ahaz took
the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent it as a present to the king
of Assyria. (9) So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up
against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed
Rezin.
(10) Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and
saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the
design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.
(11) Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from
Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
(12) And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the
king approached the altar and made offerings on it. (13) So he burned his burnt
offering and his grain offering; and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled
the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. (14) He also brought the bronze
altar which was before the LORD, from the front of the
temple — from between the new altar and the house of the LORD
— and put it on the north side of the new altar. (15) Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great new altar burn the morning burnt
offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and his grain
offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the
burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be
for me to inquire by." (16) Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King
Ahaz commanded.
(17) And King Ahaz cut off the panels of the carts, and removed the lavers from
them; and he took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put
it on a pavement of stones. (18) Also he removed the Sabbath pavilion which they
had built in the temple, and he removed the king's outer entrance from the house
of the LORD, on account of the king of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 28:1-8
(1) Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight
of the LORD, as his father David had done. (2)
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images
for the Baals. (3) He burned incense in the Valley of the Son
of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast
out before the children of Israel. (4) And he sacrificed and
burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green
tree.
(5) Therefore the LORD his God delivered
him into the hand of the king of Syria. They defeated him, and
carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to
Damascus. Then he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,
who defeated him with a great slaughter. (6) For Pekah the son
of Remaliah killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one
day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD
God of their fathers. (7) Zichri, a mighty man of
Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam the officer
over the house, and Elkanah who was second to the king. (8)
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren
two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters; and
they also took away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria. |
(19) Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? (20) So Ahaz rested with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Hezekiah his
son reigned in his place.
(NKJV)
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