2 Kings 16
Ahaz Reigns in Judah
1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. 2Ahaz was atwenty 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, 3but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. bHe even burned his son as an offering, ▼▼Or made his son pass through the fire
daccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 eAnd he sacrificed and made offerings fon the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. 5 gThen Rezin king of Syria and hPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz ibut could not conquer him. 6At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered jElath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from kElath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day. 7 lSo Ahaz sent messengers to mTiglath-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.” 8Ahaz also ntook 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. 9 oAnd the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus pand took it, carrying its people captive to qKir, and he killed Rezin.
10When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet rTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to sUriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details. 11And 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. 12And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. tThen the king drew near to the altar and went up on it 13and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 14And uthe bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed vfrom the front of the house, from the place between whis altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of xhis altar. 15And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn ythe 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 zthe bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.” 16Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.
17And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down aathe sea ▼
▼Compare 1 Kings 7:23
from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal. 18And 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. 19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written acin the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 20And Ahaz slept with his fathers and adwas buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 1 Chronicles 3:13
13 aeAhaz his son, afHezekiah his son, agManasseh his son,Isaiah 1:1
1The ahvision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem aiin the days of ajUzziah, akJotham, alAhaz, and amHezekiah, kings of Judah.Isaiah 7:1-12
Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz
1In the days of anAhaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, aoRezin the king of Syria and apPekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. 2When the house of David was told, aq“Syria is in league with ▼▼Hebrew Syria has rested upon
asEphraim,” the heart of Ahaz ▼▼Hebrew his heart
and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. 3And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and auShear-jashub ▼
▼ Shear-jashub means A remnant shall return
your son, at the end of awthe conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 4And say to him, ax‘Be careful, aybe quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two azsmoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and bathe son of Remaliah. 5Because Syria, with Ephraim and bbthe son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it ▼▼Hebrew let us split it open
for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7thus says the Lord God: bd“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8For the head of Syria is beDamascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is bfthe son of Remaliah.
bgIf you ▼
▼The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14
are not firm in faith,you will not be firm at all.’”
The Sign of Immanuel
10Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: 11“Ask bia sign of the Lord your ▼▼The Hebrew for you and your is singular in verses 11, 16, 17
God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” Hosea 1:1
1The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, bkin the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of blJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.Micah 1:1
1The word of the Lord that came to Micah bmof Moresheth bnin the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw boconcerning bpSamaria and Jerusalem.Matthew 1:9
9and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
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