{"id":1826,"date":"2012-06-26T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:31:33","slug":"2-chronicles-28-stay-on-the-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 28) Stay on the track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For he [Ahaz] walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.\u00a0\u00a0He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.\u00a0And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahaz, whose father and grandfather were godly men, was a very wicked king in Judah, rivaling the wickedness of the kings of Israel. He was, assumedly, &#8220;brought up in the faith&#8221;, but then turned away from it. It is not how one starts, but how one finishes. God is gracious, and will help us to run the race, but we have to stay on the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For he [Ahaz] walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.\u00a0\u00a0He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.\u00a0And he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 28) Stay on the track&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}