1In the seventeenth year of Pekah, Ahaz the son of Jotham started his reign, and it was kinda wild, no cap.

2Ahaz was just 20 when he became king, and he ruled for 16 years in Jerusalem, but he wasn’t vibing with what the Lord wanted, unlike his dad David.

3Instead, he followed the kings of Israel and made his son go through the fire, doing all the sus stuff the heathens did that God kicked out.

4He was out here sacrificing and burning incense on high places, hills, and under every green tree, just straight up wildin’.

5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah rolled up to Jerusalem to throw down, and they besieged Ahaz, but he held it down.

6At that time, Rezin took Elath back for Syria and kicked the Jews out, so the Syrians were chilling there even now.

7So Ahaz hit up Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, like, "I’m your servant, come save me from the kings of Syria and Israel who are coming for me."

8Ahaz snatched silver and gold from the Lord's house and the king’s treasures and sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

9The king of Assyria was like, "Bet," and went up against Damascus, took it, and took the people captive, slaying Rezin.

10King Ahaz then went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser and saw an altar there; he sent Urijah the priest the design of the altar, like, "Check this out."

11Urijah built the altar just like Ahaz asked from Damascus, so it was ready when Ahaz came back.

12When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar, walked up to it, and offered sacrifices there.

13He burnt his offerings and poured out his drink offerings, sprinkling the blood of his peace offerings on the altar, keeping it lit.

14He also brought the brazen altar from the front of the house, moving it to the north side of the new altar, just rearranging things.

15King Ahaz told Urijah the priest to burn the morning and evening offerings on the big altar, plus all the people’s offerings, making it a whole scene.

16Urijah did everything Ahaz said, no questions asked.

17King Ahaz chopped off the bases' borders, removed the laver, and took the sea off the brasen oxen, putting it on a stone pavement.

18He also flipped the cover for the sabbath and the king’s entry, moving them away from the Lord’s house for the king of Assyria.

19Now, all the other things Ahaz did, aren’t they in the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20Ahaz passed away and was buried with his fam in the city of David; then his son Hezekiah took over the throne.

1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2Twenty 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.

3But 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.

4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

5Then 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.

6At 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.

7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser 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.

8And 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.

9And 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.

10And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser 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.

11And 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.

12And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

13And 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.

14And he brought also the brasen 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.

15And 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 brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

16Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

17And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

18And 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.

19Now 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?

20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.