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In the
seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to
reign.
02 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.
03 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.
04 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the
high places, and on the hills, and under every
green tree.
05 Then 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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.
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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.
12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the
king saw the altar: and the king approached to
the altar, and offered thereon.
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.
14 And he brought also the brasen 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.
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 brasen altar
shall be for me to enquire by.
16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all
that king Ahaz commanded.
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 brasen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon the pavement of
stones.
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.
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?
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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