2 Kings Chapter 16

Ahaz reigns in Judah.

In the 17th year of Pika, the son of Ramalaya,

Ahaz the son of Jotham, King of Judah, began to reign.

Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 16 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. 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, and he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills

and under every green tree. Then reason, king of Syria, and Pika, the son of Ramalaya, king of

Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged

Ahaz, but could not conquer him.

At that time reason, the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah

from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwelt to the stay.

So Ahas sent messengers to Tiglath Polizer, 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. 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. And the king of Assyria listened to him.

The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to

cure and he killed reason. When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Polizer,

King of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahas sent to Uriah the

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