2 Kings 16

In the seventeenth year of Pekah Ibn Remaliah, Ahaz Ibn Jotham king of Judah began to reign. ²Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not do that which was right in the eyes of Allah his God, like Dawud his father. ³But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Allah cast out from before Bani-Israel. ⁴He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. ⁵Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem for battle: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. ⁶At that time Rezin king of Syria restored Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day. ⁷So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the kings of Syria and of Israel, who rise up against me. ⁸Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Allah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. ⁹The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin. ¹⁰King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the design of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. ¹¹Uriah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Uriah the priest made it before the king Ahaz came back from Damascus. ¹²When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. ¹³He burned his burnt offering and his meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, on the altar. ¹⁴The bronze altar, which was before Allah, he brought from the forefront of the temple, from between his new altar and the house of Allah, and put it on the north side of his altar. ¹⁵King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. ¹⁶Thus did Uriah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. ¹⁷King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. ¹⁸The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he removed from the house of Allah, because of the king of Assyria. ¹⁹Now 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? ²⁰Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawud: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.