<p class="bodytext">Ahaz his son,p> <p class="bodytext">Hezekiah his son,p> <p class="bodytext">Manasseh his son,p>

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Micah:p> <p class="bodytext">Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> again spoke to Ahaz:

So Uriah the priest did exactly as<n id="1" /> King Ahaz ordered.p>

But Ahaz responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to ask; I don&#8217;t want to put the <sc>Lordsc> to a test.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the year King Ahaz died,<n id="1" /> this message was revealed:<n id="2" />p>

Jotham passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David.<n id="2" /> His son Ahaz replaced him as king.p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time King Ahaz asked the king<n id="1" /> of Assyria for help.

<p class="bodytext">During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there.<n id="1" /> King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.<n id="2" />

Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus.<n id="1" /> Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.<n id="2" />

Jotham passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham&#8217;s son Ahaz became king over Judah.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc> his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> They besieged Ahaz,<n id="2" /> but were unable to conquer him.<n id="3" />

Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were<n id="1" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute<n id="2" /> to the king of Assyria.

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Ahaz&#8217;s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" />

Ahaz passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year of King Ahaz&#8217;s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for nine years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the third year of the reign of Israel&#8217;s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz&#8217;s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.