2 Kings 16

2 Kings Chapter 16 KJV

1Ahaz reigneth very wickedly. 5Rezin and Pekah make war against him. 7He hireth Tiglath-pileser against them, who taketh Damascus, and slayeth Rezin. 10Ahaz causeth a new altar to be made for burnt offerings after a pattern sent by him from Damascus, and setteth aside the brasen altar for his private use. 17He spoileth the temple of its ornaments for a present to the king of Assyria. 19He dieth: Hezekiah succeedeth him.
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 1Twenty 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, 1and made his son to pass through the fire, 2according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4 And 1he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and 2on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 ¶ Then 1Rezin 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 aElath 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 1Tiglath-pileser 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 1Ahaz 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 1went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to 2Kir, and slew Rezin.
10 ¶ And king Ahaz went to aDamascus 1to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and 2saw 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 1Urijah 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, 1the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
13 And 1he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of ahis peace offerings, upon the altar.
14 And he brought also 1the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between 2the 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 1great 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 2enquire by.
16 Thus did Urijah the priest, 1according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
17 ¶ And king Ahaz 1cut 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 1the 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.
2 Kings 16