1 GLT In the year of the 17 th year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, the king of Judah, became king. BSB BSB: In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
2 GLT Ahaz{ was} a son of 20 years when he became king, and he was king 16 years in Jerusalem. But he did not do what was upright in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father. BSB BSB: Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
3 GLT And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. And he even made his son pass through in the fire, like the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh had driven them out from the face of the sons of Israel. BSB BSB: Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
4 GLT And he sacrificed, and he burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. BSB BSB: And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 GLT Then Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel, came up{ to} Jerusalem for war. And they layed siege against Ahaz, but they were not able to fight. BSB BSB: Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
6 GLT At that time, Rezin the king of Aram restored Elath to Aram, and he drove the Judahites out of Elath. And Arameans came to Elath, and they have lived there to this day. BSB BSB: At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
8 GLT And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found{ in} the house of Yahweh and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and he sent a bribe to the king of Assyria. BSB BSB: Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
9 GLT And the king of Assyria listened to him, and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and he seized it, and he exiled it to Kir. And he killed Rezin. BSB BSB: So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
10 GLT And King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath- Pileser the king of Assyria{ in} Damascus, and he saw the altar that{ was} in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work. BSB BSB: Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
11 GLT And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest did until King Ahaz came from Damascus. BSB BSB: And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.
12 GLT And the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar. And the king drew near to the altar, and he offered up on it. BSB BSB: When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
13 GLT And he made his burnt offering and his grain offering smoke, and he poured out his drink offering, and he sprinkled the blood of the peace offerings that{ belonged} to him on the altar. BSB BSB: He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splattered the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14 GLT And the altar of bronze that{ was} to the face of Yahweh— and he brought forward from the face of the house, from between the altar and from between the house of Yahweh. And he gave it to the side of altar to the north. BSB BSB: He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.
15 GLT And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying,“On the large altar make the burnt offering of the morning and the grain offering of the evening and the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering and the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their grain offering and their drink offerings smoke. And you will sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all blood of sacrifice. But the altar of bronze will be for me to seek.” BSB BSB: Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
16 GLT And Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded. BSB BSB: So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.
17 GLT And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and he removed the wash bowl from on them. And he took down‘The Sea’ from on the oxen of bronze that{ were} beneath it, and he put it on the floor of stones. BSB BSB: King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
18 GLT And he removed the covering of the Sabbath that they built in the house and the entrance of the king, the outer one,{ from} the house of Yahweh, from the face of the king of Assyria. BSB BSB: And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.
19 GLT But the rest of the words of Ahaz that he did— are they not written on the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? BSB BSB: As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20 GLT And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Hezekiah his son became king in his place. BSB BSB: And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
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