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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah: Ahaz, the son of Jotham, reigned as king of Judah.
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, his God, as his father David did.
2 Ahaz 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.
3 Instead, he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Moreover, he even consecrated his son, making him pass through fire, in accord with the idols of the nations that the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.
3 But 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.
4 Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, ascended to do battle against Jerusalem. And they besieged Ahaz, but they were not able to overcome him.
5 Then 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.
6 At that time, Rezin, the king of Syria, restored Elath to Syria, and he expelled the Judeans from Elath. And the Idumeans went into Elath, and they have lived there, even to this day.
6 At 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.
7 Then Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser, the king of the Assyrians, saying: “I am your servant, and I am your son. Ascend and accomplish my salvation from the hand of the king of Syria, and from the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up together against me.”
7 So 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.”
8 And when he had collected the silver and the gold that could be found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king, he sent it as a gift to the king of the Assyrians.
8 Ahaz 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.
9 And he agreed to his will. For the king of the Assyrians ascended against Damascus, and he laid waste to it. And he carried away its inhabitants to Cyrene. But Rezin he killed.
9 The 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.
10 And king Ahaz traveled to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser, the king of the Assyrians. And when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Ahaz sent to Uriah, the priest, its pattern and likeness, according to all of its work.
10 King 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.
11 And Uriah, the priest, constructed an altar in accord with all that king Ahaz had commanded from Damascus. Uriah, the priest, did so, until king Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
11 Urijah 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.
12 And when the king had arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar, and he venerated it. And he went up and immolated holocausts, with his own sacrifice.
12 When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.
13 And he offered libations, and he poured out the blood of the peace offerings, which he had offered, upon the altar.
13 He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14 But the altar of brass, which was before the Lord, he took away 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 positioned it at the side of the altar, toward the north.
14 The 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.
15 Also, king Ahaz instructed Uriah, the priest, saying: “Upon the great altar, offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and the holocaust of the king, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the entire people of the land, and their sacrifices. But their libations, and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, you shall pour out upon it. Then truly, the altar of brass shall be prepared for use at my will.”
15 King 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.”
16 And so Uriah, the priest, acted in accord with all that king Ahaz had instructed to him.
16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
17 Then king Ahaz took away the engraved bases, and the basin that was upon them. And he took down the sea from the bronze oxen, which were holding it up. And he positioned it upon a layer of pavement stone.
17 King 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.
18 Also, the canopy for the Sabbath, which he had built in the temple, and the exterior entrance of the king, he converted into the temple of the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.
18 He 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.
19 Now the rest of the words of Ahaz that he did, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
19 Now 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?
20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and he was buried with them in the city of David. And Hezekiah, his son, reigned in his place.
20 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Ahaz
A faithless king who courted Assyria and even sacrificed his own son.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 16; 2 Chron. 28; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:9
Remaliah
Named as the father of Pekah, king of Israel.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 16:5
Rezin
King of Aram who with Pekah of Israel besieged Ahaz in Jerusalem, recovered Elath, and was put to death when Tiglath-pileser captured Damascus.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5; 2 Kings 16:6
Tiglath-pileser
King of Assyria who captured Ijon, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead and Galilee in Pekah's days, deporting the people, and whom Ahaz paid to attack Aram and Israel. 1 Chronicles 5:26…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:7
Uriah
The priest who built an altar in Jerusalem according to the plans King Ahaz sent from Damascus and offered on it at the king's command. Isaiah 8:2 names Uriah the priest as a…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 16:11; 2 Kings 16:15
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 1:1; 2 Kings 15:27–30; 2 Kings 15:32–33; 2 Chronicles 28:1–4; Hosea 1:1
- 2 2 Chronicles 28:1–4; 2 Kings 18:3; 1 Kings 11:4–8; 2 Kings 22:2; 2 Chronicles 17:3
- 3 Deuteronomy 12:31; Leviticus 18:21; 2 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 17:17; Psalm 106:37–38
- 4 Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23; Isaiah 57:5–7; Jeremiah 17:2; Isaiah 65:4
- 5 2 Kings 15:37; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:9–10; Isaiah 7:1–9; Isaiah 9:6–7
- 6 2 Kings 14:22; 1 Kings 9:26; Deuteronomy 2:8; 2 Chronicles 26:2
- 7 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Chronicles 28:16; 1 Chronicles 5:26; Hosea 14:3; Psalm 146:3–5
- 8 2 Kings 12:17–18; Psalm 7:15–16; Isaiah 8:7–8; 2 Kings 16:17–18; 2 Chronicles 28:20–21
- 9 Amos 9:7; Isaiah 22:6; Amos 1:3–5; Isaiah 7:16; 2 Chronicles 28:21
- 10 Romans 12:2; Isaiah 8:2; Ezekiel 23:16–17; Psalm 106:39; 2 Kings 15:29
- 11 Ezekiel 22:26; 1 Kings 21:11–13; Malachi 2:7–9; Daniel 3:7; 2 Chronicles 26:17–18
- 12 2 Chronicles 26:16–19; 2 Chronicles 28:25; Numbers 18:4–7; 1 Kings 13:1; 2 Chronicles 28:23
- 13 Leviticus 1:1–3
- 14 2 Chronicles 4:1; Exodus 40:6; Exodus 40:29; Matthew 23:35; 2 Chronicles 1:5
- 15 Exodus 29:39–41; 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Chronicles 29:21–24; Genesis 44:5
- 16 Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29; Jude 11; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Kings 16:11
- 17 2 Chronicles 29:19; Jeremiah 52:20; 2 Kings 25:13–16; 2 Chronicles 4:14–15; 2 Chronicles 28:24
- 18 Ezekiel 46:2; 2 Kings 11:5; 1 Kings 10:5
- 19 2 Chronicles 28:26; 2 Kings 15:6–7; 1 Kings 14:29; 2 Kings 15:38; 2 Kings 20:20–21
- 20 Isaiah 1:1; Matthew 1:9; 2 Chronicles 28:27–29:1; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1
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