2 Chronicles 28:19 (ESV Strong's)
For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the Lord.
Subject: The downfall of pride
The entire book of 2 Chronicles is about the kings of Judah. The author outlines when they stood for God and when the stood, like the kings of Israel, for evil. He also outlines, above, what happens to the kings in the end of their reign. Far too many of them fall into sin, at the end, when they have success in the early part of their kingship. In the above text we see pride taking over the King Ahab. God brings about judgment on the King and to the people of Judah because the King was turning to Assyria for help instead of to God. God wants us to be humble. If we allow pride to control our lives, God will bring humility to us. Note what God already said in this book about humility in an earlier chapter:
2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV Strong's)
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
King Ahaz, instead of turning to God for help, in humility, reaches out to foreign nations and foreign gods to provide help. The God of the universe is at His door and, yet, his pride made him reach out to the world. God will bring him to humility ... that will happen to all who seek the world instead of God.
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