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Ahaz offered sacrifices at the local shrines,[a] as well as on every hill and in the shade of large trees.

Syria and Israel Attack Judah

(2 Kings 16.5,6)

5-6 (A) Ahaz and the people of Judah sinned and turned away from the Lord, the God their ancestors had worshiped. So the Lord punished them by letting their enemies defeat them.

The king of Syria attacked Judah and took many of its people to Damascus as prisoners. King Pekah[b] of Israel later defeated Judah and killed 120,000 of its bravest soldiers in one day.

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Footnotes

  1. 28.4 local shrines: See the note at 11.15.
  2. 28.5,6 Pekah: Hebrew “Pekah son of Remaliah.”

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