2 Kings 16:7-15

7 aSo Ahaz sent messengers to bTiglath-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 ctook 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 dAnd the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus eand took it, carrying its people captive to fKir, and he killed Rezin.

10When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet gTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to hUriah 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. iThen 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 jthe bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed kfrom the front of the house, from the place between lhis altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of mhis altar. 15And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn nthe 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 othe bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

2 Chronicles 28:16-23

16 pAt that time King Ahaz sent to the king
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Kings 16:7); Hebrew kings
of Assyria for help.
17For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. 18 rAnd the Philistines had made raids on sthe cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco twith its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. 19For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made uJudah act sinfully
Or wildly
and had been very unfaithful to the Lord.
20So wTiglath-pileser
Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser
king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
21 yFor Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

Ahaz’s Idolatry

22In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz. 23For zhe sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, aaBecause 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.

Ezekiel 16:28

28 abYou played the whore also acwith the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 23:5

5Oholah played the whore adwhile she was mine, and aeshe lusted after her lovers afthe Assyrians, warriors
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