And in every several city of Judah he made high places. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 28:2.

And provoked to anger.Deuteronomy 32:16. Instead of this 2 Chronicles 28:18 obscurely mentions further changes which Ahaz made in the Temple, “for fear of the king of Assyria." It seems probable that the sacrilege described in 2 Chronicles 28:24 and in 2 Kings 16:17, was perpetrated in collecting everything of any value to send to the rapacious Assyrian.

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