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2 Kings 16
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- In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw
the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 brasen altar shall be
for me to enquire by.
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- Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
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- 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 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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