1. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was right in the sight of Jehovah, like David his father,
2. but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made molten images for the Baals;
3. and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
4. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.