2 Kings 16 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Ahaz Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 28:1–27 )

In the seventeenth^H7651^H6240 year^H8141 of Pekah^H6492 the son^H1121 of Remaliah^H7425, Ahaz^H271 the son^H1121 of Jotham^H3147, king^H4428 of Judah^H3063, became^H4427 king^H4427.

2Ki 16:2

2Ki 16:2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of Yahweh his God, as David his father had done.

2Ki 16:3

2Ki 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

2Ki 16:4

2Ki 16:4He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2Ki 16:5

Then^H227 Rezin^H7526 king^H4428 of Aram^H758 and Pekah^H6492 son^H1121 of Remaliah^H7425, king^H4428 of Israel^H3478, went^H5927 up^H5927 to Jerusalem^H3389 to wage war^H4421; and they besieged^H6696^H5921 Ahaz^H271, but could^H3201 not [fn]overcome^H3898 him.

2Ki 16:6

2Ki 16:6At that time Rezin king of Aram restored Elath for Aram and cleared the Judeans out of [fn]Elath entirely; and the [fn]Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.

Ahaz Sends for Help from Assyria

2Ki 16:7

So Ahaz^H271 sent^H7971 messengers^H4397 to Tiglath-pileser^H8407 king^H4428 of Assyria^H804, saying^H559, “I am your servant^H5650 and your son^H1121; come^H5927 up^H5927 and save^H3467 me from the [fn]hand^H3709 of the king^H4428 of Aram^H758 and from the [fn]hand^H3709 of the king^H4428 of Israel^H3478, who are rising^H6965 up^H6965 against^H5921 me.”

2Ki 16:8

2Ki 16:8Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a gift to the king of Assyria.

2Ki 16:9

2Ki 16:9So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and seized it and took the people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

Ahaz Has Urijah Build an Altar

2Ki 16:10

Now King^H4428 Ahaz^H271 went^H1980 to Damascus^H1834 to meet^H7122 Tiglath-pileser^H8407 king^H4428 of Assyria^H804 and saw^H7200 the altar^H4196 which^H834 was at Damascus^H1834; and King^H4428 Ahaz^H271 sent^H7971 to Urijah^H223 the priest^H3548 the likeness^H1823 of the altar^H4196 and its pattern^H8403, according to all^H3605 its workmanship^H4639.

2Ki 16:11

2Ki 16:11So Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thus Urijah the priest made it, [fn]before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.

2Ki 16:12

2Ki 16:12So the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; then the king drew near the altar and [fn]made offerings on it,

2Ki 16:13

2Ki 16:13and offered his burnt offering and his meal offering up in smoke, and poured his drink offering and splashed the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

2Ki 16:14

2Ki 16:14Now as for the bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, [fn]he drew it away from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and he put it on the north side of his altar.

2Ki 16:15

2Ki 16:15Then King Ahaz [fn]commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon the great altar offer up in smoke the 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 offerings; and splash on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

2Ki 16:16

2Ki 16:16So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

2Ki 16:17

Then King^H4428 Ahaz^H271 cut^H7112 off^H7112 the borders^H4526 of the stands^H4350 and removed^H5493 the laver^H3595 from them; he also took^H3381 down^H3381 the sea^H3220 from the bronze^H5178 oxen^H1241 which^H834 were under^H8478 it and put^H5414 it on a pavement^H4837 of stone^H68.

2Ki 16:18

2Ki 16:18And the covered way for the sabbath which they had built in the house, and the outer entry of the king, he removed from the house of Yahweh because of the king of Assyria.