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1 In the seventeenth year of
Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
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.
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.
4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in
the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 a 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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