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2 KingsChapter 16

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In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done.
Instead he followed the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made his own son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
He sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to attack Jerusalem. They laid siege to Ahaz but could not overpower him.
At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove the Judeans out of Elath. Then the Edomites came to Elath and have lived there to this day.
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria with this message: "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me."
Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a bribe to the king of Assyria.
The king of Assyria listened to him. He marched against Damascus, captured it, deported its people to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. When he saw the altar that was in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar and a detailed plan of its construction.
So Uriah the priest built an altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he finished it before King Ahaz returned from Damascus.
When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered sacrifices on it.
He burned his whole offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings on the altar.
As for the bronze altar that stood before the LORD, he moved it from the front of the temple—from between the new altar and the house of the LORD—and set it on the north side of the new altar.
Then King Ahaz gave this command to Uriah the priest: "On the great altar burn the morning whole offering and the evening grain offering, the king's whole offering and his grain offering, and the whole offering of all the people of the land, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on it all the blood of the whole offerings and all the blood of the sacrifices. But the bronze altar I will use for seeking guidance."
And Uriah the priest did everything King Ahaz commanded.
King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the movable stands and removed the basin from each of them. He took the Sea down from the bronze oxen that supported it and set it on a stone base.
He also removed from the house of the LORD the covered Sabbath walkway that had been built there, and the king's outer entryway—all because of the king of Assyria.
The rest of the acts of Ahaz—what he did—are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.
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