2 Chronicles 28:23-25

The Voice

²³by sacrificing to the Aramean gods of Damascus, the gods of the first people who had defeated him.

Ahaz: Obviously the gods of the kings of Aram are more powerful than the Judean God. Since they helped the Aramean army, surely they will help me if I sacrifice to them.

But these gods were the downfall of him and all Israel. ²⁴He destroyed the vessels from the True God’s temple and stopped all worship in the Eternal’s temple. Then he built his own altars throughout Jerusalem ²⁵and high places throughout Judah to burn incense to false gods. These actions infuriated the Eternal One, the True God of his ancestors.

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