And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.(2 Chronicles 28:20)

For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.(2 Chronicles 28:21)

And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.(2 Chronicles 28:22)

For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.(2 Chronicles 28:24)

And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.(2 Chronicles 28:25)

Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.(2 Chronicles 28:26)

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2 Chronicles 28:23 - Cross Reference

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. (2 Kings 16:12)

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, (Jeremiah 44:20)

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. (Isaiah 1:28)

Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, (Jeremiah 44:15)

Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. (2 Chronicles 25:14)

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. (Habakkuk 1:11)

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. (Jeremiah 10:5)

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. (Hosea 13:9)