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He was twenty years old when he began his reign, which lasted at Jerusalem for sixteen years. This Achaz did not obey the Lord’s will like his ancestor David before him; (2 Kings 16, 2)
gifts, too, he sent him, collecting all the silver and gold that was to be found in temple or palace. (2 Kings 16, 8)
Forgotten, all the commandments of the Lord their God; they must have two golden calves, they must have sacred trees, they must worship all the host of heaven, and become Baal’s servants; (2 Kings 17, 16)
until at last the Lord banished them from his presence, as all his prophets had foretold in his name, and they were carried off from their own country into Assyria, where they remain to this day. (2 Kings 17, 23)
And so it is to this day; the old habits still cling. This is not to fear the Lord, this is not to keep observance and decree, law and command, as the sons of Jacob should; Jacob, to whom the Lord gave his name of Israel. (2 Kings 17, 34)
To the Lord your God, he told them, the God who rescued you from Egypt with such signal proofs of his constraining power, all fear, all worship, all sacrifice belongs; (2 Kings 17, 36)
To all this they paid no heed; old custom was still the rule they lived by. (2 Kings 17, 40)
This king was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted twenty-nine years. (2 Kings 18, 2)
in the paths the Lord had traced he followed still, holding ever close to him, keeping ever the commands he had given through Moses. (2 Kings 18, 6)
whereupon king Ezechias sent word to the king of Assyria, then at Lachis: I have been to blame; withdraw thy troops, and I will pay whatever ransom thou dost demand. So the king of Assyria imposed on Ezechias king of Juda a tribute of three hundred talents of silver, and three hundred of gold. (2 Kings 18, 14)
broke up, too, the temple doors, with the golden plates he himself had nailed to them, and gave these to the king of Assyria. (2 Kings 18, 16)
Their demand was to see the king, but they were met by Eliacim, son of Helcias, the controller of the royal household, and Sobna, the secretary, and Joahe, son of Asaph, the recorder. (2 Kings 18, 18)
