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The Fourth
Book of Kings 16
In the seventeenth year of Phacee the son of Romelia
reigned Achaz the son of Joatham king of Juda.
Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that
which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord his Cod,
as David his father.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover
he consecrated also his son, making him pass through
the fire according to the idols of the nations: which
the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Then Basin king of Syria, and Phacee son of Romelia
king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they
besieged Achaz, but were not able to overcome him.
At that time Rasin king of Syria restored Aila to Syria,
and drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites
came into Aila, and dwelt there unto this day.
And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar king of
the Assyrians, 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, who
are risen up together against me.
And when he had gathered together the silver and gold
that could be found in the house of the Lord, and in
the king's treasures, he sent it for a present to the
king of the Assyrians.
And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians
went up against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he
carried away the inhabitants thereof to Cyrene, but
Basin he slew.
And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar
king of the Assyrians, end when he had seen the altar
of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias the priest a pattern
of it, and its likeness according to all the work thereof.
And Urias the priest built an altar according to all
that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus, so did
Urias the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus.
And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the
altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts,
and his own sacrifice.
And offered libations and poured the blood of the peace
offerings, which he had offered upon the altar.
But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he
removed from the face of the temple, and from the place
of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the
Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar toward
the north.
And king Achaz commanded Urias the priest saying: Upon
the great altar offer the morning holocaust, and the
evening sacrifice, and the king's holocaust, and his
sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole people of
the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations:
and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood
of the victim thou shalt pour out upon it: but the altar
of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.
So Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz
had commanded him.
And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver
that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the
brazen oxen that held it up, and put it upon a pavement
of stone.
The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built
in the temple: and the king's entry from without he
turned into the temple of the Lord, because of the king
of the Assyrians.
Now the rest of the acts of Achaz, which he did, are
they not written in the book of the words of the days
of the kings of Juda?
And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with
them in the city of David, and Ezechias his son reigned
in his stead. |
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