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offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with
the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings;
and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the
brasen altar shall be for me to enquire
by.
16
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
17
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and
took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that
were
under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
18
And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned
he from the house of the L
ORD
for the king of Assyria.
19
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
20
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER KINGS 17
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over
Israel nine years.
2
And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, but not as the kings of
Israel that were before him.
3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave
him presents.
4
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers
to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as
he had done
year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged
it three years.
6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into
Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor
by
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes.
7
For
so
it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the L
ORD
their God, which had
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had
feared other gods,
8
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the L
ORD
cast out from before
the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9
And the children of Israel
did secretly
those
things that
were
not right against the L
ORD
their God, and they built them high
places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10
And they set them
up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11
And there they burnt incense
in all the high places, as
did
the heathen whom the L
ORD
carried away before them; and wrought
wicked things to provoke the L
ORD
to anger:
12
For they served idols, whereof the L
ORD
had said
unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13
Yet the L
ORD
testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
all the prophets,
and by
all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my
commandments
and
my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and
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