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20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

23¶ In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem. began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, P Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who

made Israel to sin.

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of Pekah and Jotham.

took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began "Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

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

35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

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36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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The wicked reign of Ahaz. 5 He, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hireth Tiglath-pileser against them. 10 He goeth to Damascus, and sendeth thence the pattern of an altar for the temple. 17 He spoileth the temple. 19 Hezekiah succeedeth him. [B. C. 742.]

IN the seventeenth year of Pekah the son

of Remaliah, a Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he

27.3, &c. a ch. 16. 5. Is. 7.1. b ver. 27.

CHAP. XVI.-a 2 Chr. 28. 1, &c.

The evil reign of Ahaz.

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He spoileth the

began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in | king approached to the altar, and Jerusalem, and did not that which was right thereon. in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

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7 So Ahaz sent messengers to 2 Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

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8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the

b Lev. 18. 21. 2 Chr. 28. 3. Ps. 106, 37, 38. 12. 2. 1 Kings 14. 23. e Is. 7. 1, 4, &c.

g ch. 15. 23.

pilneser.

e Deut. 12. 31. f ch. 14. 22.

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d Deut. 1 Heb. Eloth.

Heb. Tilguth-pileser, 1 Chr. 5. 26. & 2 Chr. 28. 20, Tilgath

h ch. 12. 18. See 2 Chr. 28. 21. 3 Heb. Dammesek. i Am. 1. 5.

13 And he burnt his burnt offerin his meat offering, and poured his drin ing, and sprinkled the blood of his offerings, upon the altar.

14 And he brought also 'the brazer which was before the LORD, from th front of the house, from between the and the house of the LORD, and pu the north side of the altar.

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carried into captivity.

I the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah | wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD ran Hoshea the son of Elah to reign to anger: Samaria over Israel nine years.

And he did that which was evil in the it of the LORD, but not as the kings of el that were before him.

Against him came up 'Shalmaneser of Assyria; and Hoshea became his ant, and gave him 2 presents. And the king of Assyria found conspiin Hoshea: for he had sent messengers king of Egypt, and brought no present he king of Assyria, as he had done year year: therefore the king of Assyria shut up, and bound him in prison.

Then the king of Assyria came up ughout all the land, and went up to Sa1. and besieged it three years.

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king Assyria took Samaria, and carried IsIway into Assyria, and placed them Hlah and in Habor by the river of Go, and in the cities of the Medes.

For so it was, that the children of Ishad sinned against the LORD their God, ch had brought them up out of the 1 of Egypt, from under the hand of oh king of Egypt, and had feared or gods,

And walked in the statutes of the then, whom the LORD cast out from be

the children of Israel, and of the kings Israel, which they had made.

And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the their God, and they built them high es in all their cities, from the tower of

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And they set them up images and ves in every high hill, and under every

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And there they burnt incense in all high places, as did the heathen whom LORD carried away before them; and

AP. XVII-a ch. 15. 30. b ch. 18. 9. 1 Heb. rendered, 2 Sam. 8. 2. b. 18. 9. d eh. 18. 10. 11. Hos. 13. 16. e Lev. 26, 32, 5.9 & 29, 27, 23. f1 Chr. 5. 26. g Lev. 18. 3. Deut. 4181 i1 Kings 14. 23. Is. 57. 5. 3 Heb. #KEL. 34. 13. Deut. 16. 21. Mic. 5. 14. 1 Deut. 12. 2. ch. 16, 4. n Deut. 4. 19. • Heb. by the

h ch. 18. 8.

4. Lev. 26. 1. Deut. 5. 7, 8.

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12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, " Ye shall not do this thing.

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13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, ' Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

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15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD. had charged them, that they should "not do like them.

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introduce the worship of God.

them into the hand of spoilers, until he had every nation in their cities wherein they cast them out of his sight.

21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.

22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of

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24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from "Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt

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27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,

g1 Kings 11. 11, 31. h 1 Kings 12. 20, 28. i1 Kings 14, 16. 1 Ezra 4. 2, 10. m See ver. 30. n ch. 18. 34, Ivah. p Ezra 4. 9. q Lev. 18. 21. Deut. 12. 31.

k ver. 6.

r 1 Kings 12. 31.

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30 And the men of Babylon made Suecoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

31 P And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

32 So they feared the LORD, and made of the high places, which sacrificed for them unto themselves of the lowest of them priests in the houses of the high places.

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33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from

thence.

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34 Unto this day they do after the forneither do they after their statutes, or after mer manners: they fear not the LORD, their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the

children of Jacob, whom he named Israel:

35 With whom the LORD had made a

covenant, and charged them, saying, "Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow your selves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

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36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.

39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

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3 And he did that which was right in the Lt of the LORD, according to all that il his father did.

He removed the high places, and ke the 'images, and cut down the groves, brake in pieces the "brazen serpent that ses had made for unto those days the iren of Israel did burn incense to it: the called it 2 Nehushtan.

› He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; that after him was none like him among the kings of Judah, nor any that were re him.

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year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

11 P And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

13¶ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did 'Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.

16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool," which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the house

g Deut. 10. 20. Josh. 23. 8. il Sam. 18. 5, 14. Ps. 60. 12. Heb. Azzah. m ch. 17. 9.

q 1 Chr. 5. 26. Heb. Sanherib.

r ch. 17. 7. Dan.

t ch. 16. 8.

Heb. from after him. k ch. 16. 7.

n ch. 17. 3.

h 2 Chr. 15. 2. 11 Chr. 4. 41. Is. 14. 29. o ch. 17. 6. p ch. 17. 6 9. 6, 10. 8 2 Chr. 32. 1, &c. Is. 36, 1, &c. Heb. them. Heb. heavy.

u Is. 7. 3.

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