The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:14 (RSV)

So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chr 28:15 (RSV)

And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samar′ia.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chr 28:16 (RSV)

At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:17 (RSV)

For the E′domites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:18 (RSV)

And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephe′lah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-she′mesh, Ai′jalon, Gede′roth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they settled there.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 28:19 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had cast away restraint in Judah, and acted treacherously against the LORD.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 28:20 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:21 (ESV)

For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:22 (ESV)

Ahaz's Idolatry​

22. In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD—this same King Ahaz.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 28:23 (ERV)
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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:24 (RSV)

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 28:25 (RSV)

In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 28:26 (KJV)
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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 29:1 (KJV)

Hezekiah Reigns in Judah​

1. 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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 29:1 (KJV)

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 29:1 (KJV)

Hezekiah Reigns in Judah​

1. 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.

Should be.......

2 Chronicles 28:27 (KJV)
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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 29:3 (ERV)
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the door of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 29:4 (RSV)

He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 29:5 (RSV)

and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 29:6 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
For our fathers have acted treacherously, and done that which was evil in the sight 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.