Catholic Public Domain Version
"Moreover, in the time of his anguish, he also added to his contempt against the Lord. King Ahaz himself, by himself, "
— 2 Chronicles 28:22, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.”
“And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz. ”
“In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.”
“During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the LORD.”
“Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,”
“And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.”
“And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.”
For the Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz, the king of Judah, since he had stripped it of help, and had shown contempt for the Lord.
And he led against him Tilgath-pilneser, the king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him and laid waste to him, without resistance.
And so Ahaz, despoiling the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings and the leaders, gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it profited him nothing.
Moreover, in the time of his anguish, he also added to his contempt against the Lord. King Ahaz himself, by himself,
immolated victims to the gods of Damascus, those who had struck him. And he said: “The gods of the kings of Syria assist them, and so I will please them with victims, and they will help me.” But to the contrary, they had been the ruin of him and of all Israel.
And so, Ahaz, having despoiled and broken apart all the vessels of the house of God, closed up the doors of the temple of God, and made for himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.
Also, he constructed altars in all the cities of Judah, in order to burn frankincense, and so he provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to wrath.