Ahaz Reigns in Judah
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do whatwas right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David haddone.3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed (Lev. 18:21); 2 Kin. 17:17; 2 Chr. 28:3; Ps. 106:37, 38; Is. 1:1he made his son pass through the fire, according to the (Deut. 12:31); 2 Kin. 21:2, 11abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the 2 Kin. 15:34, 35high places, (Deut. 12:2); 1 Kin. 14:23on the hills, and under every green tree.