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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)
altered, too, the sabbath porch he had built in the temple, and the outer part of the royal entry.✻ Of all these changes in the temple building the king of Assyria was the cause. (2 Kings 16, 18)
This king was attacked by Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, and made his vassal, and forced to pay tribute. (2 Kings 17, 3)
Afterwards, the Assyrian king found out that he had sent an embassy to Sua, king of Egypt, hoping thus to rebel, and to be rid of his yearly tribute; whereupon he seized him, put him in chains, and imprisoned him. (2 Kings 17, 4)
So it was decreed, from the time when the Israelites first cut themselves off from David’s line, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king; Jeroboam it was that drove men away from the Lord’s worship, and taught them to commit heinous sin. (2 Kings 17, 21)
And now the Assyrian king brought men from Babylon, and Cutha, and Avah, and Emath, and Sepharvaim, and settled these, instead of the Israelites, in the cities that belonged to Samaria. So they took possession of it, and made their homes in its cities, (2 Kings 17, 24)
News of this came to the Assyrian king, and a warning with it: The nations thou hast removed, and settled down in the cities of Samaria, have never learned how the God of that land would be worshipped; and he, the Lord, has sent a plague of lions among them. Must they die for want of knowledge how their new God is to be worshipped? (2 Kings 17, 26)
So the Assyrian king gave orders that one of the priests carried away thence should be restored to his home; should go to live among them, and teach them how to worship the Lord. (2 Kings 17, 27)
In the third year of Osee, son of Ela, king Achaz of Juda was succeeded by his son Ezechias. (2 Kings 18, 1)
This king was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted twenty-nine years. (2 Kings 18, 2)
In the Lord God of Israel he put all his trust; never was a king of Juda to rival him before or after; (2 Kings 18, 5)
What wonder if the Lord was with him, if he was well advised in all he did? Against the king of Assyria he rose in rebellion, and denied him tribute; (2 Kings 18, 7)
