2 Chronicles 28:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.

²² Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,

²³ Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.