2 Chronicles 28:24

24 He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:24

And gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut
in pieces the vessels of the house of God
And converted them to his own use, sold them, or melted the gold and silver, of which they were, and made money of them, his treasures being exhausted:

and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord:
that the people might not come and worship there, but on the high places he made:

and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem;
that the priests might sacrifice there, and not in the temple.

2 Chronicles 28:24 In-Context

22 But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson - at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God!

23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country.

24 He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem.

25 And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah - neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry!

26 The rest of Ahaz's infamous life, all that he did from start to finish, is written in the Royal Annals of the Kings of Judah and Israel.