2 Kings 16
16:1In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah reigned.
16:2Ahaz was a son being twenty years old in his reigning. And sixteen years he reigned in Jerusalem, and he did not do the upright thing in the eyes of the lord his God as David his father.
16:3And he went in the way of the kings of Israel, and indeed he led his son through fire, according to the abominations of the nations, which the lord removed in front of the sons of Israel.
16:4And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and upon the hills, and underneath every tree of the woods.
16:5Then Rezin king of Syria ascended, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, to Jerusalem for war. And they made assault against Ahaz, and they were not able to wage war.
16:6In that time Rezin king of Syria returned Elath to Syria, and cast out the Jews from Elath. And the Edomites came into Elath, and they dwelt there until this day.
16:7And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of the Assyrians, saying, I am your servant and your son. Ascend and deliver me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel! the ones rising up against me.
16:8And Ahaz took the silver and the gold he found in the treasuries of the house of the lord and of the house of the king, and he sent gifts to the king of the Assyrians.
16:9And the king of the Assyrians heard him. And the king of the Assyrians ascended up against Damascus, and he seized it, and he resettled it, and he killed Rezin.
16:10And king Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of the Assyrians in Damascus. And he saw the altar, the one in Damascus. And king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar, and the proportions of it, according to all its makings.
16:11And Urijah the priest built the altar according to all as much as king Ahaz sent from Damascus. Thus Urijah the priest did until the coming of the king from Damascus.
16:12And the king came from Damascus. And the king beheld the altar. And the king drew near to the altar, and ascended unto it.
16:13And he offered his whole burnt-offering, and his sacrifice offering; and he offered a libation of his libation offering to it; and he poured upon it the blood of his peace offerings -- upon the altar,
16:14And the brass altar which was before the lord he brought forward in front of the house of the lord, from between the altar and from between the house of the lord. And he put it by the side of the altar according to the north.
16:15And king Ahaz gave charge to Uriah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar offer the whole burnt-offering, the early morning sacrifice, and the the evening sacrifice offering, and the whole burnt-offerings of the king, and his sacrifice offerings, and the whole burnt-offering of all the people, and their sacrifice offerings, and their libation offerings! And all the blood of the whole burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice offering you shall pour out upon it! And the altar of brass will be for me in the morning.
16:16And Urijah the priest did according to all as much as Ahaz the king gave charge to him.
16:17And king Ahaz cut down the joinery of the bases, and he moved the bathing tub from them; and the sea he lowered from the oxen of brass, of the ones underneath it, and he put it upon a stone base.
16:18And the foundation of the chair of the Sabbaths he built in the house of the lord, and the entrance of the king the one outside, he turned in the house of the lord from in front of the king of the Assyrians.
16:19And the rest of the words of Ahaz, as much as he did, behold are not these written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
16:20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and he was entombed with his fathers in the city of David. And Hezekiah his son reigned instead of him.