16:1 In
the
seventeenth
year
of
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
Ahaz
the
son
of
Jotham,
king
of
Judah,
began
to
reign.
16:2 Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
And
he
did
not
do
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
LORD
his
God,
as
his
father
David
had
done,
16:3 but
he
walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
He
even
burned
his
son
as
an
offering,
according
to
the
despicable
practices
of
the
nations
whom
the
LORD
drove
out
before
the
people
of
Israel.
16:4 And
he
sacrificed
and
made
offerings
on
the
high
places
and
on
the
hills
and
under
every
green
tree.
16:5 Then
Rezin
king
of
Syria
and
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
king
of
Israel,
came
up
to
wage
war
on
Jerusalem,
and
they
besieged
Ahaz
but
could
not
conquer
him.
16:6 At
that
time
Rezin
the
king
of
Syria
recovered
Elath
for
Syria
and
drove
the
men
of
Judah
from
Elath,
and
the
Edomites
came
to
Elath,
where
they
dwell
to
this
day.
16:7 So
Ahaz
sent
messengers
to
Tiglath-pileser
king
of
Assyria,
saying,
"I
am
your
servant
and
your
son.
Come
up
and
rescue
me
from
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria
and
from
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
are
attacking
me."
16:8 Ahaz
also
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
a
present
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
16:9 And
the
king
of
Assyria
listened
to
him.
The
king
of
Assyria
marched
up
against
Damascus
and
took
it,
carrying
its
people
captive
to
Kir,
and
he
killed
Rezin.
16:10 When
King
Ahaz
went
to
Damascus
to
meet
Tiglath-pileser
king
of
Assyria,
he
saw
the
altar
that
was
at
Damascus.
And
King
Ahaz
sent
to
Uriah
the
priest
a
model
of
the
altar,
and
its
pattern,
exact
in
all
its
details.
16:11 And
Uriah
the
priest
built
the
altar;
in
accordance
with
all
that
King
Ahaz
had
sent
from
Damascus,
so
Uriah
the
priest
made
it,
before
King
Ahaz
arrived
from
Damascus.
16:12 And
when
the
king
came
from
Damascus,
the
king
viewed
the
altar.
Then
the
king
drew
near
to
the
altar
and
went
up
on
it
16:13 and
burned
his
burnt
offering
and
his
grain
offering
and
poured
his
drink
offering
and
threw
the
blood
of
his
peace
offerings
on
the
altar.
16:14 And
the
bronze
altar
that
was
before
the
LORD
he
removed
from
the
front
of
the
house,
from
the
place
between
his
altar
and
the
house
of
the
LORD,
and
put
it
on
the
north
side
of
his
altar.
16:15 And
King
Ahaz
commanded
Uriah
the
priest,
saying,
"On
the
great
altar
burn
the
morning
burnt
offering
and
the
evening
grain
offering
and
the
king's
burnt
offering
and
his
grain
offering,
with
the
burnt
offering
of
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
their
grain
offering
and
their
drink
offering.
And
throw
on
it
all
the
blood
of
the
burnt
offering
and
all
the
blood
of
the
sacrifice,
but
the
bronze
altar
shall
be
for
me
to
inquire
by."
16:16 Uriah
the
priest
did
all
this,
as
King
Ahaz
commanded.
16:17 And
King
Ahaz
cut
off
the
frames
of
the
stands
and
removed
the
basin
from
them,
and
he
took
down
the
sea
from
off
the
bronze
oxen
that
were
under
it
and
put
it
on
a
stone
pedestal.
16:18 And
the
covered
way
for
the
Sabbath
that
had
been
built
inside
the
house
and
the
outer
entrance
for
the
king
he
caused
to
go
around
the
house
of
the
LORD,
because
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
16:19 Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaz
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
Book
of
the
Chronicles
of
the
Kings
of
Judah
16:20 And
Ahaz
slept
with
his
fathers
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David,
and
Hezekiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
