14:028:022 And in the time of his distress did he
trespass yet more
against
the lord: this is that king Ahaz.
14:028:023 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
which smote him:
and
he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help
them,
therefore
will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
But
they
were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
14:028:024 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels
of the house of God,
and
cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and
shut up
the
doors of the house of the lord, and he made him
altars in
every
corner of Jerusalem.
14:028:025 And in every several city of Judah he made
high places to burn
incense
unto other gods, and provoked to anger the lord
God of
his
fathers.
14:028:026 Now the rest of his acts and of all his
ways, first and last,
behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Judah
and
Israel.
14:028:027 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the
city,
even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into
the
sepulchres
of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
reigned
in his stead.
14:029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five
and twenty years old,
and
he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.
And his
mother’s
name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
14:029:002 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the lord,
according
to all that David his father had done.
14:029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the
first month, opened
the
doors of the house of the lord, and repaired them.
14:029:004 And he brought in the priests and the Levites,
and gathered
them
together into the east street,
14:029:005 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites,
sanctify now
yourselves,
and sanctify the house of the lord God of your
fathers,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
14:029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done
that which was evil
in
the eyes of the lord our God, and have forsaken
him, and
have
turned away their faces from the habitation of the
lord,
and
turned their backs.
14:029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the
porch, and put out the
lamps,
and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings
in
the holy place unto the God of Israel.
14:029:008 Wherefore the wrath of the lord was
upon Judah and Jerusalem,
and
he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment,
and to
hissing,
as ye see with your eyes.


