For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 28:23 in context
2 Chronicles 28:20–26
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Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
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For Ahaz took away a portion out of the LORD’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
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In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this same King Ahaz.
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For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped 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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Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of the LORD’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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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.
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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.
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