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2 Chronicles 28:22

In Ahaz's troubles, he sinned worse and became more unfaithful to the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Ahaz;   Idolatry;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Impenitence;   Penitence-Impenitence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Presumption;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mortar;   Thieves;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Assyria, History and Religion of;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Amasa;   Hezekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Hezekiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahaz;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD, this same king Achaz.
King James Version
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord : this is that king Ahaz.
English Standard Version
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord —this same King Ahaz.
New Century Version
During Ahaz's troubles he was even more unfaithful to the Lord .
New English Translation
During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
In the time of his distress, this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
Now during the time of his distress, this same King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
World English Bible
In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in ye time of his tribulation did he yet trespasse more against ye Lord, (this is King Ahaz)
Legacy Standard Bible
Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
Even after all these terrible things happened to Ahaz, he sinned against the Lord even worse than before.
Complete Jewish Bible
During his time of distress this same King Achaz added to his treachery against Adonai
Darby Translation
And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
George Lamsa Translation
But they transgressed still more against the LORD: this same King Ahaz.
Good News Translation
When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the Lord more than ever.
Lexham English Bible
And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh.
Literal Translation
And in the time of his distressing he added to act slyly against Jehovah, this King Ahaz.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble,
American Standard Version
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.
Bible in Basic English
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the very time of his tribulation, did king Ahaz trespasse yet more against the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the time of his distress did he act even more treacherously against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
King James Version (1611)
And in the time of this distresse did hee trespasse yet more against the Lord: This is that king Ahaz.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and king Achaz said,
English Revised Version
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ferthermore also in the tyme of his angwisch he encreesside dispit ayens God; thilke kyng Achaz bi
Update Bible Version
And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
New King James Version
2 Kings 16:12-20">[xr] Now in the time of his distress King Ahaz became increasingly unfaithful to the LORD. This is that King Ahaz.
New Living Translation
Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the Lord .
New Life Bible
In the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz became even less faithful to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord —this same King Ahaz.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in the time of his distress, he yet further acted unfaithfully with Yahweh, - he, King Ahaz!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
Revised Standard Version
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.
Young's Literal Translation
And in the time of his distress -- he addeth to trespass against Jehovah, (this king Ahaz),
THE MESSAGE
But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

16At that same time the people from Edom came again and defeated the people of Judah. The Edomites captured people and took them away as prisoners. So King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria to help him. 18 The Philistines also attacked the towns in the hills and in south Judah. The Philistines captured the towns of Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo. They also captured the villages near these towns. Then the Philistines lived in them. 19 The Lord gave troubles to Judah because King Ahaz of Judah encouraged the people of Judah to sin. He was very unfaithful to the Lord . 20 King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria came and gave Ahaz trouble instead of helping him. 21 Ahaz took some valuable things from the Lord 's Temple and from the king's palace and from the prince's house. Ahaz gave them to the king of Assyria, but that didn't help him. 22 In Ahaz's troubles, he sinned worse and became more unfaithful to the Lord . 23 He offered sacrifices to the gods the people of Damascus worshiped. The people of Damascus had defeated Ahaz. So he thought to himself, "The gods the people of Aram worship helped them. So if I offer sacrifices to them, maybe they will help me also." Ahaz worshiped these gods. In this way he sinned, and he made the people of Israel sin. 24 Ahaz gathered the things from God's Temple and broke them to pieces. Then he closed the doors of the Lord 's Temple. He made altars and put them on every street corner in Jerusalem. 25 In every town in Judah Ahaz made high places for burning incense to worship other gods. Ahaz made the Lord , the God his ancestors obeyed, very angry. 26 Everything else Ahaz did, from the beginning to the end, is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the: 2 Chronicles 33:12, Psalms 50:15, Isaiah 1:5, Ezekiel 21:13, Hosea 5:15, Revelation 16:9-11

this is: Esther 7:6, Psalms 52:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:9 - Even Exodus 9:34 - and hardened 1 Kings 21:1 - after 2 Kings 23:37 - all that 2 Chronicles 16:12 - in his disease 2 Chronicles 24:7 - that wicked 2 Chronicles 33:23 - trespassed more and more Job 15:26 - runneth Job 35:10 - none Job 36:13 - heap Proverbs 27:22 - General Isaiah 7:12 - I will not ask Isaiah 9:13 - the people Isaiah 57:10 - There is Jeremiah 2:25 - after Jeremiah 2:30 - In vain Jeremiah 5:3 - thou hast stricken Jeremiah 11:12 - go Jeremiah 32:3 - Zedekiah Ezekiel 22:24 - General Ezekiel 31:18 - This is Daniel 4:17 - the basest Amos 4:6 - yet Haggai 2:17 - yet Luke 15:15 - he went Luke 23:40 - seeing John 5:14 - lest Acts 7:37 - that Revelation 9:20 - yet

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
Then he left that place and traveled to the mountains east of Bethel. He set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. Abram built another altar at that place to honor the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord there.
Genesis 14:20
And we praise God Most High, who helped you defeat your enemies." Abram gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything he had taken during the battle.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a special tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.
Genesis 28:14
You will have as many descendants as there are particles of dust on the earth. They will spread east and west, north and south. All the families on earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.
Genesis 28:15
"I am with you, and I will protect you everywhere you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised."
Genesis 28:17
Jacob was afraid and said, "This is a very great place. This is the house of God. This is the gate to heaven."
Genesis 28:22
I am setting this stone up as a memorial stone. It will show that this is a holy place for God, and I will give God one-tenth of all he gives me."
Genesis 33:20
He built an altar there to honor God. He named the place "El, the God of Israel."
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to the town of Bethel. That is where I appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau. Live there and make an altar to honor me as El, the God who appeared to you."
Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there. He named the place "El Bethel." Jacob chose this name because that is the place where God first appeared to him when he was running from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord,.... By increasing his idolatries, as appears by what he did, in imitation of what he saw at Damascus, where he had an interview with the king of Assyria, 2 Kings 16:10

this is that King Ahaz; that monster of iniquity, than whom there was none worse, nor any so bad, of all the kings of Judah.


 
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