¹⁶At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, ¹⁷since again the Edomites came and struck against Judah and took captives. ¹⁸And the Philistines sent raids into the cities of the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah. And they captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Socoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. ¹⁹For Yahweh subdued Judah for the sake of Ahaz, king of Israel, for he created disorder in Judah and acted unfaithfully against Yahweh. ²⁰Then Tiglath-Pileser^g the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, instead of helping him,^h ²¹for Ahaz took a portion from the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and the princes, and he gave it to the king of Assyria, but it was no help to him.

²²And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh. ²³He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the king of Aramⁱ helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.” But they were a disaster^j to him and to all Israel.

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Footnotes

gThe Hebrew reads “Tilgath-Pilneser”
hLiterally “and did not strengthen him”
iOr “Syria”
jLiterally “a cause of stumbling”