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 u}according 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.

1 The ^avision of ^bIsaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of ^cUzziah, ^dJotham, ^eAhaz, and ^fHezekiah, kings of Judah.

1 The word of the Lord that came to ^aHosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of ^bUzziah, ^cJotham, ^dAhaz, and ^eHezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^fJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

1 The word of the Lord that came to ^aMicah of Moresheth in the days of ^bJotham, ^cAhaz, and ^dHezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.