² Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done. ³ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed ^(A)he made his son pass through the fire, according to the ^(B)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel.