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among the cities of the plains, and to the south Chapter 29
of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,
and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five
Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and
them. twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his
19 For the Lord had humbled Juda because of mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of 2 And he did that which was pleasing in the
help, and had contemned the Lord. sight of the Lord, according to all that David his
father had done.
20 And he brought against him Thelgathphal-
3 In the first year and month of his reign he
nasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted
opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and
him, and plundered him without any resistance.
repaired them.
21 And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord,
4 And he brought the priests and the Levites,
and the house of the kings, and of the princes,
and assembled them in the east street.
and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and
5 And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites,
yet it availed him nothing.
and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord
22 Moreover also in the time of his distress
the God of your fathers, and take away all filth
he increased contempt against the Lord: king
out of the sanctuary.
Achaz himself by himself,
6 Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the
23 Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus
sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have
that struck him, and he said: The gods of the
turned away their faces from the tabernacle of
kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them
the Lord, and turned their backs.
with victims, and they will help me; whereas on
7 They have shut up the doors that were in
the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of
the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not
all Israel.
burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanc-
24 Then Achaz having taken away all the ves- tuary of the God of Israel.
sels of the house of God, and broken them, shut 8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been
up the doors of the temple of God, and made
stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he
himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem. hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruc-
25 And in all the cities of Juda he built altars tion, and to be hissed at, as you see with your
to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord eyes.
the God of his fathers to wrath. 9 Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword,
26 But the rest of his acts, and all his works our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led
first and last are written in the book of the kings away captives for this wickedness.
of Juda and Israel. 10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make
27 And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and
buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they he will turn away the wrath of his indignation
received him not into the sepulchres of the kings from us.
of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his 11 My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath
stead. chosen you to stand before him, and to minister