Ahaz Reigns in Judah
1 qIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, rAhaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, 3 but he swalked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even tburned his son as an offering,1 uaccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and von the hills and under every green tree.
3 but he swalked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even tburned his son as an offering,1 uaccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
