16IN THE seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah became king.H7651H6240H8141H8141H6492H1121H7425H271H1121H3147H4428H3063H44272Ahaz was twenty years old when he began his sixteen-year reign in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his [forefather].H6242H8141H1121H271H4427H4427H8337H6240H8141H3389H6213H3477H5869H3068H430H1732H13But he walked in the ways of Israel's kings, yes, and made his son pass through the fire [and offered him as a sacrifice], in accord with the abominable [idolatrous] practices of the [heathen] nations whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.H3212H1870H4428H3478H1121H5674H784H8441H1471H3068H3423H6440H1121H34784He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.H2076H6999H1116H1389H7488H60865Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war; they besieged Ahaz, but could not conquer him.H7526H4428H758H6492H1121H7425H4428H3478H5927H3389H4421H6696H271H3201H38986At that time, Rezin king of Syria got back Elath [in Edom] for Syria and drove the Jews from [it]. The Syrians came to Elath and dwell there to this day.H6256H7526H4428H758H7725H359H758H130H5394H3064H359H726H935H359H3427H3117
Ahaz Seeks Help of Assyria
7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and son. Come up and save me out of the hands of the kings of Syria and of Israel, who are attacking me.H271H7971H4397H8407H4428H804H559H5650H1121H5927H3467H3709H4428H758H3709H4428H3478H69658And Ahaz took the silver and gold in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.H271H3947H3701H2091H4672H1004H3068H214H4428H1004H7971H7810H4428H8049Assyria's king hearkened to him; he went up against Damascus, took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.H4428H804H8085H4428H804H5927H1834H8610H1540H7024H4191H7526
Damascus Falls
10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw there their [heathen] altar. King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a model of the altar and an exact pattern for its construction.H4428H271H3212H1834H7125H8407H4428H804H7200H4196H1834H4428H271H7971H223H3548H1823H4196H8403H463911So Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, finishing it before King Ahaz returned.H223H3548H1129H4196H4428H271H7971H1834H223H3548H6213H4428H271H935H183412When the king came from Damascus, he looked at the altar and offered on it.H4428H935H1834H4428H7200H4196H4428H7126H4196H592713King Ahaz burned his burnt offering and his cereal offering, poured his drink offering, and dashed the blood of his peace offerings upon that altar.H6999H5930H4503H5258H5262H2236H1818H8002H419614The bronze altar which was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from between his [new] altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.H7126H5178H4196H6440H3068H6440H1004H4196H1004H3068H5414H6828H3409H419615And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest: Upon the principal (the new) altar, burn the morning burnt offering, the evening cereal offering, the king's burnt sacrifice and his cereal offering, with the burnt offering and cereal offering and drink offering of all the people of the land; and dash upon the [new] altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and the sacrifices. But the [old] bronze altar shall be kept for me to use to inquire by [of the Lord].H4428H271H6680H223H3548H559H1419H4196H6999H1242H5930H6153H4503H4428H5930H4503H5930H5971H776H4503H5262H2236H1818H5930H1818H2077H5178H4196H123916Urijah the priest did all this as King Ahaz commanded.H6213H223H3548H4428H271H668017[To keep Assyria's king from getting them] King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases [of the ten lavers] and removed the laver from each of them; and he took down the Sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it upon stone supports.H4428H271H7112H4526H4350H5493H3595H3381H3220H5178H1241H5414H4837H6818And the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the temple court, and the king's outer entrance, he removed from the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria [who if he heard of them might seize them].H4329H4329H7676H1129H1004H4428H3996H2435H5437H1004H3068H6440H4428H804
Hezekiah Reigns over Judah
19The rest of the acts of Ahaz, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?H3499H1697H271H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H306320Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried [with them] in the City of David. Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.H271H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H2396H1121H4427
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