Ahaz Reigns in Judah
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f Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done,
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but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made g metal images for h the Baals,
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and i he made offerings in the j Valley of the Son of Hinnom and k burned his sons as an offering, according to l the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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And he sacrificed and i made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:1 - 4
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.
2 Kings 16:2 - 4
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:17
You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
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Cross References
Judges 2:11
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:25
In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:8
Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Leviticus 18:21
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:2
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:9
When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:3
And he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.