II Kings Chapter 16

II Kings Chapter 16
1 The seventeenth year of Pekah the son
of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham
king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty year old was Ahaz, when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
year in Jerusalem, and did not uprightly
in the sight of the Lord his God, like
David his father:
3 But walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, yea, and made his son to go
through the fire, after the abominations
of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast
out before the children of Israel.
4 Also he offered and burned incense in
the high places and on the hills, and
under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin king of Aram [Syria] and
Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel
came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they
besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome
him.
6 At the same time Rezin king of Aram
[Syria] restored Elath to Aram [Syria],
and drove the Jews from Elath: so the
Aramites [Syrians] came to Elath, and
dwelt there unto this day.
7 Then Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath
Pileser [Pul] king of Assyria, saying, I
am thy servant and thy son: come up, and
deliver me out of the hand of the king of
Aram [Syria], and out of the hand of the
king of Israel which rise up against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and the gold
that was found in the house of the Lord,
and in the treasures of the king's house,
and sent a present unto the king of
Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria consented unto
him: and the king of Assyria went up
against Damascus. and when he had
taken it, he carried the people away to
Kir, and slew Rezin.
10 And king Ahaz went unto Damascus
to meet Tiglath Pileser [Pul] king of
Assyria: and when king Ahaz saw the
altar that was at Damascus, he sent to
Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar,
and the fashion of it, and all the
workmanship thereof.
11 And Urijah the priest made an altar in
all points like to that which king Ahaz
had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah
the priest against king Ahaz came from
Damascus.
12 So when the king was come from
Damascus, the king saw the altar: and
the king drew near to the altar and
offered thereon.
13 And he burned his burnt offering, and
his meat offering, and poured his drink
offering, and sprinkled the blood of his
peace offerings besides the altar, 14 And
set it by the brazen altar which was
before the Lord, and brought it in farther
before the house between the altar and
the house of the Lord, and set it on the
north side of the altar.
15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the
priest, and said, Upon the great altar set
on fire in the morning the burnt offering,
and in the even the meat offering, and the
king's burnt offering and his meat
offering, with the burnt offering of all the
people of the land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings: and
pour thereby all the blood of the burnt
offering, and all the blood of the
sacrifice, and the brazen altar shall be
for me to inquire of God. 16 And Urijah
the priest did according to all that king
Ahaz had commanded. 17 And king Ahaz
break the borders of the bases, and took
the cauldrons from off them, and took
down the sea from the brazen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon a
pavement of stones.
18 And the veil for the Sabbath (that they
had made in the house) and the king's
entry without turned he to the house of
the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
19 Concerning 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?
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.