# 2 Kings 16

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-kings/16

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, but he did not do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father.
3. He followed the path of Israel's kings and even made his son pass through the fire, like the abominations of the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the sons of Israel.
4. He sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5. Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel went up against Jerusalem for battle, and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
6. At that time Rezin king of Aram returned Elath to Aram and drove the Jews from Eloth, and Arameans and Edomites came to Elath and settled there to this day.
7. Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son; come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me."
8. Ahaz took the silver and gold found in Yahweh's house and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent them as a bribe to the king of Assyria.
9. The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria advanced against Damascus, captured it, deported its people to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10. King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saw the altar there, and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar and its form, in all its workmanship.
11. Uriah the priest built the altar to match everything King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
12. The king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, and the king approached the altar and offered upon it.
13. He burned his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14. He brought the bronze altar that was before Yahweh from in front of the house, from between the altar and the house of Yahweh, and placed it on the north side of the altar.
15. King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest: "Burn on the great altar the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, the burnt offering of all the people of the land along with their grain offerings and drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of burnt offerings and all the blood of sacrifices, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."
16. Uriah the priest did everything King Ahaz commanded.
17. King Ahaz cut off the borders from the bases, removed the laver from them, brought the sea down from the bronze oxen that stood beneath it, and set it on a pavement of stones.
18. He removed the covered shelter for the sabbath that they had built in the house and the king's outer entrance from the house of Yahweh because of the king of Assyria.
19. The rest of Ahaz's deeds that he performed, are they not written in the book of the daily chronicles of Judah's kings?
20. Ahaz lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

## Nearby chapters

[2 Kings 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-kings/15.md)
[2 Kings 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-kings/17.md)

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