2 Kings 16

In the year of 17, the year to Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the king of Judah, reigned.

Ahaz {was} a son of 20 years when he reigned, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. But he did not do right in the eyes of God his God like David his father. \*

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. And he even made his son pass through the fire, like the abominations of the nations that God had driven them out from the face of the sons of Israel.

And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places and on hills and under every green tree. \*

Then Rezin, the king of Aram, came up with Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, {to} Jerusalem for battle. And they besieged against Ahaz, but they were not able to fight.

(At that time, Rezin, the king of Aram, restored Elath to Aram, and he drove the Judeans from Elath. And Arameans came to Elath, and they have lived there to this day.) \*

And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser, the king of Assyria, saying, “I {am} your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the palm of the king of Aram and from the palm of the king of Israel, the ones having arisen against me.”

And Ahaz took the silver and the gold found {in} the house of God and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and he sent a gift to the king of Assyria.

And the king of Assyria listened to him, and the king of Assyria came up against Damascus, and he captured it. And he exiled it to Kir, but he killed Rezin. \*

And King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath Pileser, the king of Assyria, {in} Damascus, and he saw the altar that {was} in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a likeness of the altar and its pattern for all of its work.

And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus.

And the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar. And the king drew near to the altar, and he offered on it. \*

And he burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured out his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of the peace offerings that {were} to him on the altar.

And the altar of bronze that {was} to the face of God, he then brought forward from the face of the house, from between the altar and from between the house of God, and he put it to the side of the altar, to the north. \*

And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the large altar burn the burnt offering of the morning and the grain offering of the evening and the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering and the burnt offering of all of the people of the land and their grain offering and their drink offerings. And you shall sprinkle on it all of the blood of the burnt offering and all of the blood of the sacrifice. But the altar of bronze will be for me to seek.”

And Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded. \*

And King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and he removed the basin from upon them, and he took down the sea from upon the oxen of bronze that {were} beneath it and put it on a pavement of stones,

and the canopy of the Sabbath that they had built at the house and the outer entrance of the king, he removed {from} the house of God, from the face of the king of Assyria. \*

Now the rest of the matters of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And Ahaz lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. \*