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2 Chronicles 28:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. "
2 Chronicles 28:20
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The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
For the LORD brought ➔ Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made ➔ Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
For 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.
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
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2 Chronicles 28:1
"Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:"
2 Chronicles 28:2
"For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim."
2 Chronicles 28:3
"Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:4
"He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."
2 Chronicles 28:5
"Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter."
2 Chronicles 28:6
"For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers."
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