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2 Chronicles 25:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So the Lord’s anger was against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, ‘Why have you sought a people’s gods that could not rescue their own people from you? ’

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No, but I do say that what they  sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


Who should not fear you, King of the nations? It is what you deserve. For among all the wise people of the nations and among all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.


This is what the  Lord  says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?


However, a man of God  came to him and said, ‘King, do not let Israel’s army go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel #– #all the Ephraimites.


The Spirit of God enveloped  , Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, ‘This is what God says, “Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands so that you do not prosper?  Because you have abandoned the Lord, he has abandoned you.” ’


Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, ‘Because you formed an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord has broken up what you have made.’ So the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.


Then Jehu  son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him  and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord?  Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.


You are not to make a covenant  with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars.  But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?


While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, ‘Have we made you the king’s counsellor? Stop, why should you lose your life? ’ So the prophet stopped, but he said, ‘I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.’


A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, ‘Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of his wrath against Judah,  but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.


He said, ‘You took the gods I had made and the priest, and went away. What do I have left? How can you say to me, “What’s the matter with you? ” ’


and they abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the Asherah poles and the idols.  So there was wrath  against Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.


‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.


Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried  because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm   – and they cannot do any good.


Moab will be put to shame because of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was put to shame because of Bethel  that they trusted in.





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