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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tig '
lath-pile '
ser king of Assyria ,
saying , "
I am your servant and your son .
Come up ,
and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel ,
who are attacking me ."
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Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king '
s house ,
and sent a present to the king of Assyria .
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And the king of Assyria hearkened to him ;
the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus ,
and took it ,
carrying its people captive to Kir ,
and he killed Rezin .
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When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tig '
lath-pile '
ser king of Assyria ,
he saw the altar that was at Damascus .
And King Ahaz sent to Uri '
ah the priest a model of the altar ,
and its pattern ,
exact in all its details .
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And Uri '
ah the priest built the altar ;
in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus ,
so Uri '
ah the priest made it ,
before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus .
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And when the king came from Damascus ,
the king viewed the altar .
Then the king drew near to the altar ,
and went up on it ,
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and burned his burnt offering and his cereal offering ,
and poured his drink offering ,
and threw the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar .
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And the bronze altar which was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house ,
from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD ,
and put it on the north side of his altar .
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And King Ahaz commanded Uri '
ah the priest ,
saying , "
Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering ,
and the evening cereal offering ,
and the king '
s burnt offering ,
and his cereal offering ,
with the burnt offering of all the people of the land ,
and their cereal offering ,
and their drink offering ;
and throw upon 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 ."