English Standard Version

2 Kings 16:12-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

13. and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

14. And the bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

15. And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

16. Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

17. And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.

18. And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

19. Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

20. And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.