1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.
6 At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.
7 So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
11 And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
12 And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.
13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.
14 And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.
15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.
16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
17 And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.
18 *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
20 And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.
1 利玛利的儿子比加在位第十七年， 犹大王约坦的儿子亚哈斯登基作王。
2 亚哈斯登基的时候是二十岁， 他在耶路撒冷作王十六年。但是他不像他祖宗大卫行耶和华他的 神看为正的事，
3 反倒跟随以色列诸王的道路， 甚至焚烧他的儿子为祭， 好像耶和华在以色列人面前驱逐的外族人所行可憎恶的事，
4 并且在邱坛上， 在山冈上和所有青翠的树下献祭和焚香。
5 那时， 亚兰王利汛与以色列王利玛利的儿子比加上来攻打耶路撒冷。他们把亚哈斯围困起来， 却不能战胜他。
6 当时， 亚兰王利汛收复以拉他归与亚兰。他把犹大人逐出以拉他， 亚兰人来到以拉他住在那里， 直到今日。
7 于是亚哈斯差派使者去见亚述王提革拉．毗列色， 说： "我是你的臣仆， 你的儿子， 求你上来， 救我脱离那起来攻击我的亚兰王和以色列王的手。"
8 亚哈斯拿耶和华殿里和王宫宝库内的金子和银子， 送给亚述王作礼物。
9 于是亚述王答应了他。亚述王上去攻打大马士革， 把城攻取， 把居民掳到吉珥， 又把利汛杀死了。
10 亚哈斯王到大马士革会见亚述王提革拉．毗列色， 看见在大马士革的祭坛。亚哈斯王就派人把祭坛的图样、结构和详尽的做法送到乌利亚祭司那里。
11 于是乌利亚祭司按着亚哈斯王从大马士革送回来的一切指示建造祭坛。在亚哈斯王从大马士革回来以前， 乌利亚祭司就照样做了。
12 王从大马士革回来， 看见了那祭坛， 于是王走到祭坛旁边， 登上台阶，
13 烧他的燔祭和素祭， 又浇上他的奠祭， 并且把他的平安祭牲的血洒在祭坛上。
14 至于耶和华面前的铜祭坛， 他把它从殿前， 从新坛与耶和华殿中间移至新坛的北边。
15 亚哈斯王吩咐乌利亚祭司说： "要在这大祭坛上焚烧早晨的燔祭、黄昏的素祭、王的燔祭牲和素祭、所有国民的燔祭和素祭； 也要在坛上浇上他们的奠祭， 以及所有燔祭牲和平安祭牲的血。至于铜祭坛， 我要用来求问 神。"
16 乌利亚祭司就照着亚哈斯王一切所吩咐的去行。
17 亚哈斯又砍掉盆座的边缘， 把洗濯盆拿下来， 又把铜海从驮着铜海的铜牛上取下来， 放在铺了石的地上。
18 又因亚述王的缘故， 他把耶和华殿里为安息日而建造的廊子， 和王从外边进殿的廊子， 从耶和华的殿内拆除。
19 亚哈斯所行其余的事迹， 不是都写在犹大列王的年代志上吗？
20 亚哈斯和他的祖先一同长眠， 葬在大卫城和他的祖先在一起。他的儿子希西家接续他作王。