The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
16: 1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah
began to reign. 16:2Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like
David his father. 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass
through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before
the children of Israel. 16:4He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree. 16:5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel
came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. 16:6At that time
Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came
to Elath, and lived there, to this day. 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of
Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your 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, who rise up against me. 16:8Ahaz took the silver
and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent
it for a present to the king of Assyria. 16:9The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and
killed Rezin. 16:10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the
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 of it. 16:11Urijah the priest built an altar: according to
all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of
king Ahaz from Damascus. 16:12When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar:
and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. 16:13He burnt his burnt offering and his
meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, on
the altar. 16:14The brazen altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the
house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.
16:15King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt
offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal-offering, with
the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings;
and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the
brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16:16Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded. 16:17King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off
them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement
of stone. 16:18The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry
outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria. 16:19Now the rest of the
acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
16:20Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah
his son reigned in his place.
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