21. For Ahaz stripped the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave to the king of Assyria; but he was of no help to him.
22. And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
23. And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
24. And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God and closed the doors of the house of Jehovah, and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25. And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah the God of his fathers.
26. And the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem; but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.