2 Kings 16:7–15

⁷Ahaz sent messengers to say to Tiglath-Pileser^o king of Assyria, “I am your servant and vassal. Come up and save^p me out of the hand of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.” ⁸And Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a gift^q to the king of Assyria. ⁹The king of Assyria complied by attacking Damascus^r and capturing it. He deported its inhabitants to Kir^s and put Rezin to death.

¹⁰Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah^t the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction. ¹¹So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned. ¹²When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings^au on it. ¹³He offered up his burnt offering^v and grain offering,^w poured out his drink offering,^x and splashed the blood of his fellowship offerings^y against the altar. ¹⁴As for the bronze altar^z that stood before the Lord, he brought it from the front of the temple—from between the new altar and the temple of the Lord—and put it on the north side of the new altar.

¹⁵King Ahaz then gave these orders to Uriah the priest: “On the large new altar, offer the morning^a burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. Splash against this altar the blood of all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar for seeking guidance.”^b