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          DASV: 2 Kings 16    

1 Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign in the
seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign. He
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and he did not do
what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, like
David his father.
3 Instead he walked in the way of the kings of Israel.
He even made his son to pass through the fire, following
the detestable practices of the nations whom the LORD
drove out before the Israelites.
4 He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,
on the hills and under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king
of Israel came up to attack Jerusalem. They besieged
Ahaz, but could not conquer him.
6 At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for
Aram, and drove the Jews from Elath. The Arameans came
to Elath, and live there to this day.

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 Aram,
and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are
attacking me."
8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the temple of the LORD, and in the treasuries of
the king's palace, and sent it as a present to the
king of Assyria.
9 The king of Assyria agreed with his request and the
king of Assyria attacked Damascus, and took it. He
carried its people away captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser
king of Assyria. There he saw the altar that was at
Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a
drawing of the altar and its design, giving the exact
details needed for building it.
11 So Uriah the priest built the altar according to
all the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Uriah
the priest built it before King Ahaz returned from
Damascus.
12 When the king returned from Damascus and saw the
altar, the king approached the altar and offered
sacrifices on it.
13 He burned his burnt offering and his grain offering,
and poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the
blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14 The bronze altar which was before the LORD, he
removed from the front of the temple, from between
his altar and the temple of the LORD, and put it on
the north side of his altar.
15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, "On the large
altar burn the morning burnt offering and the
evening grain offering, and the king's burnt
offering, and his grain offering, along with the
burnt offering for all the people of the land,
and their grain offering, and their drink offerings.
Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt offering and
all the blood of the sacrifice on it. The bronze
altar shall be my personal altar to inquire by.
16 So Uriah the priest did everything that King
Ahaz commanded.
17 King Ahaz cut off the frames and removed the
basins from the portable stands. He took down
the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it,
and put it on the stone pavement.
18 He also removed the covered canopy used on the
Sabbath that they had built inside the palace,
and the king's special outside entry to the temple
of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the acts which Ahaz did, are
they not written in the scroll of the Annals of
the Kings of Judah?
20 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried
with them in the city of David. Hezekiah his
son reigned in his place.

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