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| 16:1 | In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. |
| 16:2 | Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that
which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like
David his father. |
| 16:3 | But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, 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. |
| 16:4 | And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| 16:5 | 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. |
| 16:6 | At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians
came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. |
| 16:7 | 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, which rise up against
me. |
| 16:8 | And Ahaz 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 it for a present to the king of Assyria. |
| 16:9 | 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. |
| 16:10 | And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser
king 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. |
| 16:11 | 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. |
| 16:12 | And when the king was come from Damascus, the king
saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and
offered thereon. |
| 16:13 | 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. |
| 16:14 | 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. |
| 16:15 | And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and
the evening meat offering, and the king's 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. |
| 16:16 | Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz commanded. |
| 16:17 | 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. |
| 16:18 | And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in
the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from
the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria. |
| 16:19 | 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? |
| 16:20 | 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. |