◄ 2 Chronicles 28:22 ►
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Good News Translation
When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the LORD more than ever.

New Revised Standard Version
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD—this same King Ahaz.

Contemporary English Version
Even after all these terrible things happened to Ahaz, he sinned against the LORD even worse than before.

New American Bible
While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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2 Chronicles 33:12 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Isaiah 1:5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Ezekiel 21:13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Revelation 16:9-11 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they penance to give him glory. . . .

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Esther 7:6 And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.

Psalm 52:7 Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

Context
The Idolatry of Ahaz
…21And 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. 22Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,23Sacrificed 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.…
Cross References
Revelation 16:11
And they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and wounds: and did not penance for their works.

Isaiah 1:5
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

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