2KI-16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah

Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2KI-16:2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and

reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was]

right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

2KI-16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea,

and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the

abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before

the children of Israel.

2KI-16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,

and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2KI-16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king

of Israelcame up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz,

but could not overcome [him].

2KI-16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to

Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to

Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

2KI-16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of

Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and

save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the

hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

2KI-16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the

house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and

sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.

2KI-16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the

king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and

carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

2KI-16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser

king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and

king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,

and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

2KI-16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all

that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made

[it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

2KI-16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw

the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered

thereon.

2KI-16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering,

and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his

peace offerings, upon the altar.

2KI-16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was]

before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between

the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north

side of the altar.

2KI-16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,

Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the

evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his

meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the

land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and

sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all

the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me

to inquire [by].

2KI-16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king

Ahaz commanded.

2KI-16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and

removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off

the brazen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement

of stones.

2KI-16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in

the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the

house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

2KI-16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are]

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Judah?

2KI-16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with

his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned

in his stead.

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