Fondare 37 Risultati per: Achaz
So Joatham was laid to rest with his fathers, with the Keep of David for his burying-place, and the throne passed to his son Achaz. (2 Kings 15, 38)
It was in the seventeenth year of Phacee, son of Romelia, that Achaz, son of Joatham, came to the throne of Juda. (2 Kings 16, 1)
He was twenty years old when he began his reign, which lasted at Jerusalem for sixteen years. This Achaz did not obey the Lord’s will like his ancestor David before him; (2 Kings 16, 2)
Never a high hill or a mountain-slope or a leafy wood but Achaz must do sacrifice and offer incense there. (2 Kings 16, 4)
And now Rasin king of Syria and Phacee son of Romelia marched on Jerusalem and besieged Achaz there, but could not get the mastery of him. (2 Kings 16, 5)
Thereupon Achaz sent a message to the Assyrian king, Theglath-Phalasar; Bring aid, master, to thy servant, father, to thy son; rescue me from the assault of Syria and Israel; (2 Kings 16, 7)
When king Achaz went to meet Theglath-Phalasar at Damascus, he saw there an altar, of which he sent a likeness with a full account of all its workmanship, to the high priest Urias; (2 Kings 16, 10)
and Urias built an altar in accordance with all the directions Achaz had sent him from Damascus, to greet his return. (2 Kings 16, 11)
Returned from Damascus, Achaz went to see it and did reverence to it;✻ then went up to make burnt-sacrifice and meal-offering; (2 Kings 16, 12)
And king Achaz bade the high priest Urias bring to this greater altar the morning burnt-sacrifice and the meal-offering at nightfall; here king and people would present burnt-sacrifice and meal-offering and libations, here the blood of the burnt-sacrifice and all other offerings was to be spilt; as for the altar of bronze, it should await the king’s good pleasure. (2 Kings 16, 15)
King Achaz also took away the moulded stands and the smaller basins that rested on them; took away the oxen that supported the great basin and let it rest on a stone pavement instead; (2 Kings 16, 17)
What else Achaz did, all his history, is to be found in the Annals of the kings of Juda. (2 Kings 16, 19)
