2Ki 16:7-18 | ESV | STEP | So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-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 .

2 Kings 16:7-18

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.” 8 Ahaz 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.

10 When 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. 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. ⁱThen the king drew near to the altar and went up on it 13 and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 14 And ^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. 15 And 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.” 16 Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

17 And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down ^pthe sea ^{▼▼Compare 1 Kings 7:23} from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal. 18 And 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.