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Chapter 16 |
1 | In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. |
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Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God,
like David his father. |
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass
through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel. |
4 | And he
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree. |
5 | Then
Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to
Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. |
6 | At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered
Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to
Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. |
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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy
servant and thy 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, which rise up against me. |
8 | And Ahaz
took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in
the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king
of Assyria. |
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| And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of
it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. |
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And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw
an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the
fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship
thereof. |
11 | And Urijah the priest built an altar
according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the
priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. |
12 | And when the king was come from Damascus,
the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and
offered thereon. |
13 | And he
burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink
offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the
altar. |
14 | And he brought also the brazen altar,
which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between
the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
altar. |
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| And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat
offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with
the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood
of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the
brazen altar shall be for me to enquire by. |
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Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. |
17 | And king Ahaz
cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them;
and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and
put it upon the pavement of stones. |
18 | And
the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the
king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king
of Assyria. |
19 | Now the rest of
the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
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And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Matt 1:9
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