2 Kings 16

1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:27 · 2Ki 15:32 · 2Ki 15:38 · 2Chr 28:1 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 7:1 · +2 more

2Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:14 · 1Ki 9:4 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 15:3 · 2Ki 14:3 · 2Ki 15:3 · +7 more

3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:2 · Deut 12:31 · Deut 18:10 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 14:24 · +20 more

4He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.Cross-references: Deut 12:2 · 1Ki 14:23 · 2Ki 14:4 · Isa 57:5 · Isa 65:4 · Isa 66:17 · +2 more

5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:36 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 15:37 · 2Chr 28:5 · Isa 7:1 · Isa 7:14 · +3 more

6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and live there to this day.Cross-references: Deut 2:8 · 1Ki 9:26 · 2Ki 14:22 · 2Chr 26:2

7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”Cross-references: 1Ki 20:4 · 1Ki 20:32 · 2Ki 15:29 · 1Chr 5:26 · 2Chr 28:16 · 2Chr 28:20 · +4 more

8Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 2Ki 12:17 · 2Ki 16:17 · 2Ki 18:15 · 2Chr 16:2 · 2Chr 28:20 · Ps 7:15 · +2 more

9The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.Cross-references: 2Chr 28:5 · 2Chr 28:21 · Isa 7:16 · Isa 9:11 · Isa 22:6 · Amos 1:3 · +1 more

10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.Cross-references: Ex 24:4 · Ex 39:43 · Deut 12:30 · 2Ki 15:29 · 1Chr 28:11 · 1Chr 28:19 · +11 more

11Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:11 · 2Chr 26:17 · Isa 8:2 · Jer 23:11 · Ezek 22:26 · Dan 3:7 · +4 more

12When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.Cross-references: Num 18:4 · 1Ki 13:1 · 2Chr 26:16 · 2Chr 28:23 · 2Chr 28:25

13He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.Cross-references: Lev 1:1

14The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.Cross-references: Ex 40:6 · Ex 40:29 · 2Ki 16:11 · 2Chr 1:5 · 2Chr 4:1 · Matt 23:35

15King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”Cross-references: Gen 44:5 · Ex 29:39 · Lev 4:13 · Num 28:2 · 2Sam 6:17 · 1Ki 3:4 · +17 more

16Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:11 · Acts 4:19 · Acts 5:29 · 1Thess 2:4 · Jude 1:11

17King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:23 · 2Ki 25:13 · 2Chr 4:14 · 2Chr 28:24 · 2Chr 29:19 · Jer 52:20

18He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s outer entrance to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:5 · 2Ki 11:5 · Ezek 46:2

19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:29 · 2Ki 15:6 · 2Ki 15:36 · 2Ki 15:38 · 2Ki 20:20 · 2Chr 28:26

20Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:1 · 2Ki 21:18 · 2Ki 21:26 · 1Chr 3:13 · 2Chr 28:27 · Isa 1:1 · +3 more