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* In the seventeenth sheba # #H8141year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign . * Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign , and reigned sixteen shesh # years in Jerusalem , and did not 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 Yisra #el #, 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 Yisra #el #. * And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places , and on the hills gib #ah #, 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 #A , and drave the Jews from Elath : and the Syrians came to Elath , and dwelt there unto this day . * So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser Tiglathking 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 Yisra #el #, which rise up against me . * And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD , and in the treasures of the kings house , and sent it for a present 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 Tiglathking 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 . * 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 . * And when the king was come from Damascus , the king saw the altar : and the king approached to the altar , and offered thereon . * 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 . * 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 . * And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest , saying , Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering , and the evening meat offering , and the kings 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 . * Thus did Urijah the priest , according to all that king Ahaz commanded . * 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 . * And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house , and the kings entry without , turned he from the house of the LORD for 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 dabar # 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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