Ahaz's Idolatry

2 Chronicles 28

²² In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord - this same King Ahaz. ²³ For _b he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, _c "Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. ²⁴ And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and _d 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 _e altars in every corner of Jerusalem. ²⁵ In every city of Judah he made high places to _f make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers. ²⁶ _g Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for _h they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

1. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 25:14
   After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.
   
2. Cross References
   Jeremiah 44:17 - 18
   But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 16:17
   And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 30:14
   They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron Valley.
   
5. 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.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 28:26 - 27
   Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
   2 Kings 16:19 - 20
   Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
   
7. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 21:20
   He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
   2 Chronicles 24:25
   When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.