King James Version2 Kings16

2 Kings

1 In the sev­en­teenth year of Pekah the son of Re­mali­ah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Ju­dah be­gan to reign. 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. 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. 4 And he sac­ri­ficed and burnt in­cense in the high places, and on the hills, and un­der ev­ery green tree. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 12 And when the king was come from Dam­as­cus, the king saw the al­tar: and the king ap­proached to the al­tar, and of­fered there­on. 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. 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. 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 Thus did Uri­jah the priest, ac­cord­ing to all that king Ahaz com­mand­ed. 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. 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. 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? 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.