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2 Chronicles 28:20
And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance.
2 Chronicles 28:20 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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2 Chronicles 28:20 in other translations
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.
Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
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In context
17 And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.
18 The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the plains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon, and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in them.
19 For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.
20 And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance.
21 And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.
22 Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
23 Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
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