2 Kings 15

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2 Kings 15 16
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2 Kings 158 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah
king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam
reigned over Israel in Samaria six months. 9 And
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
fathers had done he did not depart from the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel
sin. 10 Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired
against him, and struck and killed him in front
of the people and he reigned in his place. 11
Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, indeed
they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel. 12 This was the word of the
LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons
shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth
generation." And so it was.
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Hosea 14 Then the LORD said to him "Call his
name Jezreel, For in a little while I will avenge
the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of
Israel. 5 It shall come to pass in that day That
I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of
Jezreel." 6 And she conceived again and bore a
daughter. Then God said to him "Call her name
Lo-Ruhamah, For I will no longer have mercy on
the house of Israel, But I will utterly take them
away.
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2 Kings 1513 Shallum the son of Jabesh became
king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of
Judah and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from
Tirzah, came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the
son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him and he
reigned in his place. 15 Now the rest of the
acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he led,
indeed they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel. 16 Then from
Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were
there, and its territory. Because they did not
surrender, therefore he attacked it. All the
women there who were with child he ripped open.
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2 Kings 1517 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah
king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became
king over Israel, and reigned ten years in
Samaria. 18 And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD he did not depart all his days from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made
Israel sin. 19 Pul king of Assyria came against
the land and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents
of silver, that his hand might be with him to
strengthen the kingdom under his control. 20 And
Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all
the very wealthy, from each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the
king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay
there in the land. 21 Now the rest of the acts
of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? 22 So Menahem rested with his
fathers. Then Pekahiah his son reigned in his
place.
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2 Kings 1523 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.
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2 Kings 1527 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.
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2 Chronicles 271 Jotham was twenty-five years
old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did
what was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Uzziah had done
(although he did not enter the temple of the
LORD). But still the people acted corruptly. 3
He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD,
and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel. 4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and
towers. 5 He also fought with the king of the
Ammonites and defeated them. And the people of
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Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents
of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten
thousand of barley. The people of Ammon paid this
to him in the second and third years also. 6 So
Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his
ways before the LORD his God. 7 Now the rest of
the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his
ways, indeed they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was twenty-five
years old when he became king, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 So Jotham rested
with his fathers, and they buried him in the City
of David. Then Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
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2 Kings 161 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.
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Three charges against Ahaz 1. He didnt do what
was right in the sight of the Lord because he
walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. 2.
He made his son be sacrificed to the false called
Moloch by putting him to fire. This was done by
the Moabites and Amorites (2 Kings 327) and God
forbid this type of sacrifice (Lev. 1821).
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There was a great temple in honor of Saturn
(Molok), where there was the horribly ugly image
of the god, a human form with a bull's head,
having outstretched arms, where the children were
laid and rolled downward into the bronze belly of
the god. A furnace heated the whole image to a
red-hot intensity and as the screaming child was
thrown into the god's arms, the noise was drowned
out by flutes and kettle-drums. Sacrificing
children continued after this (Jeremiah 731 and
Ezekiel 2031)
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3. Ahaz was guilty of was worshiping and
sacrificing on the high places.
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2 Chronicles 285 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.
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Isaiah 76 Let us go up against Judah and
trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for
ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of
Tabel"
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2 Chronicles 288 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. 9 But a prophet of
the LORD was there, whose name was Oded and he
went out before the army that came to Samaria,
and said to them "Look, because the LORD God of
your fathers was angry with Judah, He has
delivered them into your hand but you have
killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
10 "And now you propose to force the children of
Judah and Jerusalem to be your male and female
slaves but are you not also guilty before the
LORD your God? 11 "Now hear me, therefore, and
return the captives, whom you have taken captive
from your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the
LORD is upon you." 12 Then some of the heads of
the children of Ephraim,
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Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and
Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those
who came from the war, 13 and said to them, "You
shall not bring the captives here, for we already
have offended the LORD. You intend to add to our
sins and to our guilt for our guilt is great,
and there is fierce wrath against Israel." 14 So
the armed men left the captives and the spoil
before the leaders and all the assembly. 15 Then
the men who were designated by name rose up and
took the captives, and from the spoil they
clothed all who were naked among them, dressed
them and gave them sandals, gave them food and
drink, and anointed them and they let all the
feeble ones ride on donkeys. So they brought them
to their brethren at Jericho, the city of palm
trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
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2 Kings 167 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.
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Amos 13 Thus says the LORD "For three
transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will
not turn away its punishment, Because they have
threshed Gilead with implements of iron. 4 But I
will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which
shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. 5 I will
also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off
the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, And the
one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden. The
people of Syria shall go captive to Kir," Says
the LORD.
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2 Kings 1610 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
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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.
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2 Chronicles 2822 Now in the time of his
distress King Ahaz became increasingly unfaithful
to the LORD. This is that King Ahaz. 23 For he
sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had
defeated him, saying, "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.
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2 Chronicles 2816 At the same time King Ahaz
sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For
again the Edomites had come, attacked Judah, and
carried away captives. 18 The Philistines also
had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the
South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh,
Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its villages,
Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its
villages and they dwelt there. 19 For the LORD
brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel,
for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah and
had been continually unfaithful to the LORD. 20
Also Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him
and distressed him, and did not assist him. 21
For Ahaz took part of the treasures from the
house of the LORD, from the house of the king,
and from the leaders, and he gave it to the king
of Assyria but he did not help him.
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2 Chronicles 2824 So Ahaz gathered the articles
of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles
of the house of God, shut up the doors of the
house of the LORD, and made for himself altars in
every corner of Jerusalem. 25 And in every
single city of Judah he made high places to burn
incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the
LORD God of his fathers. 26 Now the rest of his
acts and all his ways, from first to last, indeed
they are written in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel. 27 So Ahaz rested with his
fathers, and they buried him in the city, in
Jerusalem but they did not bring him into the
tombs of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his
son reigned in his place.
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