2 Chronicles 24:18 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁸ And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and the idols, and there was wrath against Juda and against Jerusalem at that time.

¹³ Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire.

²⁰ Behold when Achar, son of Zara, committed a trespass in regard to the Anathema, was there not wrath against all the congregation of Israel, so that he perished not alone for his sin?

⁸ They had chosen new gods; Then was war made upon the cities of chiefs, if a buckler was seen, or a spear among forty thousand in Israel.

¹ Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, when one among them over persuaded David, saying, Go number Israel and Juda.

⁴ so that when he grew old his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been. ⁵ [Omitted]

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²³ They built for themselves high places, and pillars, and arbours, on every high hill and under every shady tree,

² .Jehu the son of Anani the prophet, went out to meet him, and said to him, King Josaphat, dost thou aid a sinner, or form friendship with one hated by the Lord? On this account there would have been wrath against thee,

¹³ but hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and caused Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, as the house of Achab hath done, and hast slain thy brothers the sons of thy father, better men than thyself,

⁴ And after this it came into Joas's heart, to repair the house of the Lord.

¹³ and said to them, You shall not bring these captives here to us, for that would be to bring your guilt on us. Because you have sinned against the Lord, do you mean to lay it on us, to add to our sins and to heighten our folly, because our sins are many, and the fervent anger of the Lord is hanging over Israel?

⁸ therefore the Lord hath been provoked to wrath against Juda and Jerusalem, and hath made them an astonishment and a desolation, and an object of pity, as you see with your eyes.

²⁵ But Ezekias did not make a suitable return for the favour conferred on him, but his heart was lifted up, so there was wrath against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem.

³ He restored and rebuilt the high places which his father Ezekias had demolished, and erected pillars to the Baalims, and made arbours, and worshipped the whole host of heaven and served them. ⁴ Nay, he built altars in the house of the Lord, respecting which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem my name shall be forever; ⁵ he built altars for the whole host of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ And he made his children pass through fire in the land of Benennom. And he consulted omens and auguries, and used enchantments and encouraged belly speakers and sorcerers, and multiplied the ways of doing evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to wrath. ⁷ He actually set up the graven and molten image which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,

¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

¹⁰ The chiefs of Juda are become like the removers of boundaries, upon them I will pour out my fury like water. ¹¹ Ephraim tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment; because he set the example of going after vanities,

¹⁴ for I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion to the house of Juda. When I tear, I will go and take and there shall be no deliverer.

⁴ I will indeed stretch forth my hand against Juda, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will remove out of this place the names of Baal and the names of her priests; ⁵ and them who worship the host of heaven on the house tops; both those Worshippers and them also who swear by the Lord and who swear also by their king; ⁶ and them who turn aside from the Lord, and them who seek not the Lord, and them who cleave not to him.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience,