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Chapter 16 |
| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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 brazen 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. |
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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 brazen altar shall be for
me to enquire by. |
| 16 | Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all
that king Ahaz commanded. |
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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 brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of
stones. |
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| 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. |
