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Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
