Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 16
1. IN the seventeenth year of
Pekah the son of Rem-a-li-ah 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 Rem-a-li-ah 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 Tig-lath-pi-le-ser king of Asyria, 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 Tig-lath-pi-le-ser king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to U-ri-jah
the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to
all the workmanship thereof.
11. And U-ri-jah 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 U-ri-jah 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 inquire by.
16. Thus did U-ri-jah 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 Hez-e-ki-ah his son reigned in his stead.
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