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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 .
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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 .
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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 #.
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And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places ,
and on the hills gib #
ah #,
and under every green tree .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And when the king was come from Damascus ,
the king saw the altar :
and the king approached to the altar ,
and offered thereon .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thus did Urijah the priest ,
according to all that king Ahaz commanded .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .