17. King Ahaz cut off the side panels and removed the basins from the movable stands. He removed the Sea from the bronze bulls that supported it and set it on a stone base.
18. He took away the Sabbath canopy that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the Lord, in deference to the king of Assyria.
19. As for the other events of the reign of Ahaz, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
20. Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.