Ahaz

Ahaz reigned over Judah (c. 735–715 BCE) during a time of political crisis (threats from Aram/Israel). Instead of trusting the Lord (as Isaiah urged him—see Isaiah 7), he turned to idolatry^[1], high places, and foreign gods, including those of Damascus after they defeated him

The main problem with King Ahaz’s sacrifice (described in 2 Kings 16:3^[2] and 2 Chronicles 28:3)^[3] was that it involved child sacrifice—specifically, making his own son(s) “pass through the fire” (a form of immolation/burning as an offering). This was one of the most detestable practices of the surrounding Canaanite/pagan nations, explicitly forbidden in the Torah (Pentateuch).^[4]

↑ Fornication, adultery and idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
↑ 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
↑ 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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Ruining the world
- Genesis 24:21 "And the man wondering <07583> at her (Rebekah) held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not."
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 "For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin<03782> of him, and of all Israel." See Ahaz.
- 2 Kings 19:25 "Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps."
- Isaiah 6:11 "Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted <07582> without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate <07582>,"
- Isaiah 17:12 "Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing <07582> like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush <07582> like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."
- Isaiah 37:26 "Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> defenced cities [into] ruinous<05327> heaps."

[fornidols-1] Fornication, adultery and idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

[2] 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

[3] 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

[ruinN-4] Ruining the world
Genesis 24:21 "And the man wondering <07583> at her (Rebekah) held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not."

2 Chronicles 28:23 "For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin<03782> of him, and of all Israel." See Ahaz.

2 Kings 19:25 "Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps."

Isaiah 6:11 "Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted <07582> without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate <07582>,"

Isaiah 17:12 "Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing <07582> like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush <07582> like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."

Isaiah 37:26 "Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> defenced cities [into] ruinous<05327> heaps."

[5] Genesis 24:21 "And the man wondering <07583> at her (Rebekah) held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not."

[6] 2 Chronicles 28:23 "For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin<03782> of him, and of all Israel." See Ahaz.

[7] 2 Kings 19:25 "Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps."

[8] Isaiah 6:11 "Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted <07582> without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate <07582>,"

[9] Isaiah 17:12 "Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing <07582> like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush <07582> like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."

[10] Isaiah 37:26 "Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> defenced cities [into] ruinous<05327> heaps."

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