22 Now in the time of his distress King Ahaz became increasingly unfaithful to the Lord. This isthat King Ahaz.
23 For ahe sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them bthat they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.
24 So Ahaz gathered the articles of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles of the house of God, ashut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every single city of Judah he made1 high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
26aNow the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Shut up the doors - He caused the Divine worship to be totally suspended; and they continued shut till the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah, one of whose first acts was to reopen them, and thus to restore the Divine worship, II Chronicles 29:3.
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