1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

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Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 1:1, 2 Kings 15:38, 2 Kings 15:32, 2 Kings 15:33

2Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father.

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1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 11:4, 1 Kings 11:8, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Kings 22:2

3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 12:31, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 18:21, 2 Kings 21:2

4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:2, 1 Kings 14:23, 1 Kings 14:23, Jeremiah 17:2

5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

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2 Kings 15:37, 2 Kings 15:37, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 8:9

6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

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2 Kings 14:22, 2 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 9:26, Deuteronomy 2:8, 2 Chronicles 26:2

7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

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2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 15:29, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Lamentations 4:17, 1 Kings 20:32

8And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

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2 Kings 12:17, 2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 12:17, 2 Kings 12:18, Isaiah 8:7

9And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

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Amos 9:7, Isaiah 22:6, Amos 9:7, Isaiah 22:6, Amos 1:3

10And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

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Romans 12:2, Isaiah 8:2, Romans 12:2, Isaiah 8:2, Ezekiel 23:16

11And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

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2 Chronicles 26:17, 2 Chronicles 26:18, Galatians 1:10, Hosea 5:11, Ezekiel 22:26

12And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

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2 Chronicles 26:16, 2 Chronicles 26:19, 2 Chronicles 26:16, 2 Chronicles 26:19, 2 Chronicles 28:25

13And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

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Leviticus 1:1, Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 1:1, Leviticus 1:3

14And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.

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2 Chronicles 4:1, 2 Chronicles 4:1, Exodus 40:6, Exodus 40:29, Exodus 40:6

15And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt 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.

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Exodus 29:39, Exodus 29:41, Exodus 29:39, Exodus 29:41, 2 Chronicles 29:21

16Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

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Acts 4:19, Acts 5:29, Jude 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Kings 16:11

17And 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.

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2 Chronicles 29:19, 2 Chronicles 4:14, 2 Chronicles 4:15, Jeremiah 52:20, 2 Chronicles 28:24

18And 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 Lord for the king of Assyria.

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1 Kings 10:5, 2 Kings 11:5, Ezekiel 46:2, 1 Kings 10:5, 2 Kings 11:5

19Now 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?

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2 Kings 15:6, 2 Kings 15:7, 2 Kings 15:38, 2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 20:21

20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

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Isaiah 1:1, Matthew 1:9, Isaiah 1:1, Matthew 1:9, 1 Chronicles 3:13