2Ki 16:3-4, 10-12, 2Ch 28:2-4, 23-25 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

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2 Kings 16:3-4

3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. ^aHe even burned his son as an offering, ^{▼▼Or made his son pass through the fire} ^caccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 ^dAnd he sacrificed and made offerings ^eon the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16:10-12

10 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet ^fTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to ^gUriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details. 11 And 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. 12 And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. ^hThen the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

2 Chronicles 28:2-4

2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made ⁱmetal images for ^jthe Baals, 3 and ^khe made offerings in the ^lValley of the Son of Hinnom and ^mburned his sons as an offering, ^{▼▼Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire} according to ^othe abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and ^pmade offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28:23-25

23 For ^qhe sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, ^r“Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and ^scut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself ^taltars in every corner of Jerusalem. 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to ^umake offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.