2 Chronicles 28:22-25
28:22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.
28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. He reasoned, “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.
28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
28:25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.
2 Chronicles 33:4-10
33:4 He built altars in the
Lord’s temple, about which the
Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”
33:5 In the two courtyards of the
Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
33:6 He passed his sons through the fire
in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.
He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the
Lord and angered him.
33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors,
provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”
33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of
Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the
Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
33:10 The Lord confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
2 Chronicles 33:22-23
33:22 He did evil in the sight of
the
Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped
them.
33:23 He did not humble himself before the
Lord as his father Manasseh had done.
Amon was guilty of great sin.