2 CHRONICLES 28:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.”
The death and succession — '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. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place' (וישׁאר דברי אחז הראשׁנים והאחרונים הנם כתובים בספר מלכי יהודה וישׂראל וישׁכב אחז עם אבתיו ויקברוהו בעיר בירושׁלם כי לא הביאוהו לקברי מלכי ישׂראל). Ahaz dies and is buried in Jerusalem, but notably 'not in the tombs of the kings' (לא הביאוהו לקברי מלכי) — the burial denial reflects his apostasy. His son Hezekiah succeeds him, beginning the era of reform.
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