JUDAH’S KING AHAZ

16 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah,x Ahazy son of Jotham became king of Judah. 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God like his ancestor Davidz 3 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.aa He even sacrificed his son in the fire,E imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.ab 4 He sacrificed and burned incenseac on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.ad