12. When Ahaz returned, he went to see the altar and to offer sacrifices on it. He walked up to the altar
13. and poured wine over it. Then he offered sacrifices to please the Lord, to give him thanks, and to ask for his blessings.
14. After that, he had the bronze altar moved aside, so his new altar would be right in front of the Lord's temple.
15. He told Uriah the priest:From now on, the morning and evening sacrifices as well as all gifts of grain and wine are to be offered on this altar. The sacrifices for the people and for the king must also be offered here. Sprinkle the blood from all the sacrifices on it, but leave the bronze altar for me to use for prayer and finding out what God wants me to do.
16. Uriah did everything Ahaz told him.
17. Ahaz also had the side panels and the small bowls taken off the moveable stands in the Lord's temple. He had the large bronze bowl, called the Sea, removed from the bronze bulls on which it rested and had it placed on a stand made of stone.
18. He took down the special tent that was used for worship on the Sabbath and closed up the private entrance that the kings of Judah used for going into the temple. He did all these things to please Tiglath Pileser.
19. Everything else Ahaz did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.
20. Ahaz died and was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem, and his son Hezekiah became king.