The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 27:3 (ESV)

He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and did much building on the wall of Ophel.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 27:4 (ESV)

Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

 

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2 Chronicles 27:5 (ERV)
He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 27:6 (ASV)

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 27:7 (ASV)

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

 

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2 Chronicles 27:8 (NIV)
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 27:9 (ASV)

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:1 (NIV)

Ahaz King of Judah

1. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord.

 

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2 Chronicles 28:2 (ERV)
but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:3 (RSV)

and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:4 (RSV)

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

 

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2 Chronicles 28:5 (KJV)
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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:6 (KJV)

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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:7 (KJV)

And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

 

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2 Chronicles 28:8 (KJV)
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

 

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2 Chronicles 28:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them: 'Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, He hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:10 (RSV)

And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:11 (RSV)

Now hear me, and send back the captives from your kinsfolk whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”

 

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2 Chronicles 28:12 (KJV)
Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:13 (RSV)

and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”