2Kings:16

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* In the year seventeen of Pekah , the son of Remaliah , Ahaz , the son of Jotham , king of Judah , began to reign . * Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and did not do [that which was ] right in the sight of the LORD his God like David , his father . * But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel and even made his son pass through the fire , according to the abominations of the Gentiles , whom the LORD cast out from before the sons of Israel . * Likewise he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree . * 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 ]. * At that time Rezin , king of Syria , recovered Elath to Syria and drove the Jews from Elath ; and the Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there unto this day . * 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 , who have risen up against me . * And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasury of the king 's house and sent [it for ] a bribe to the king of Assyria . * 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 . * And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser , King of Assyria , and saw the 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 of it . * And Urijah , the priest , built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus ; so Urijah , the priest , made [it ] while King Ahaz returned from Damascus . * And when the king was come from Damascus , the king saw the altar ; and the king came near to the altar and offered upon it . * And he burnt his burnt offering and his present and poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace [offerings ], next to the altar . * And the brasen altar which [had been ] before the LORD , he cause to be moved in front of the forefront of the house , from between the altar and the house of the LORD , and he put it beside the altar towards the Aquilon . * And King Ahaz commanded Urijah , the priest , saying , Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening present and the king 's burnt sacrifice and his present , and likewise the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their present 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 mine to enquire [by ]. * Thus did Urijah , the priest , according to all that King Ahaz commanded him . * And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases and removed the lavers 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 . * And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house and the king 's entry outside , he moved behind the house of the LORD , for the sake of the king of Assyria . * 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 ? * 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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