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It was in the seventeenth year of Phacee, son of Romelia, that Achaz, son of Joatham, came to the throne of Juda. (2 Kings 16, 1)
And now Rasin king of Syria and Phacee son of Romelia marched on Jerusalem and besieged Achaz there, but could not get the mastery of him. (2 Kings 16, 5)
(It was then that Rasin recovered Ailam for Syria, by driving the men of Juda out from it; but the Edomites came and took possession of it, and it remains theirs to this day.✻ ) (2 Kings 16, 6)
Thereupon Achaz sent a message to the Assyrian king, Theglath-Phalasar; Bring aid, master, to thy servant, father, to thy son; rescue me from the assault of Syria and Israel; (2 Kings 16, 7)
and Urias built an altar in accordance with all the directions Achaz had sent him from Damascus, to greet his return. (2 Kings 16, 11)
Returned from Damascus, Achaz went to see it and did reverence to it;✻ then went up to make burnt-sacrifice and meal-offering; (2 Kings 16, 12)
Then he removed the brazen altar, that stood ever in the Lord’s presence opposite the tabernacle, away from its place between the new altar and the temple, to the north side of the new altar. (2 Kings 16, 14)
Such was their doom, who had no sooner escaped from Egypt and from the power of Pharao, than they wronged the God who had rescued them by worshipping alien gods instead. (2 Kings 17, 7)
Afterwards, they took their forms of worship from the very nations the Lord had driven out to make room for them, or from kings who imitated their ways. (2 Kings 17, 8)
With false inventions these Israelites offended the Lord that was their own God, making themselves mountain shrines in all their townships from lonely hamlet to walled city.✻ (2 Kings 17, 9)
The Lord did not leave himself without witness; by prophet and seer he warned them, Come back from these graceless ways, follow precept and observance of mine; as the law bids you, that I enjoined on your fathers; as the prophets bade you, my servants that spoke in my name. (2 Kings 17, 13)
consecrate their sons and daughters by passage through the fire, take their orders from wizard and soothsayer; enslave themselves to defiance of the Lord’s will, and provoke his vengeance. (2 Kings 17, 17)
