⁷ They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense^(A) or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.

²⁴ Ahaz gathered together the furnishings^(A) from the temple of God^(B) and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors^(C) of the Lord’s temple and set up altars^(D) at every street corner in Jerusalem.

² “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. ³ Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(A) for the generations to come. ⁴ The lamps on the pure gold lampstand^(B) before the Lord must be tended continually.

⁵ “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,^(C) using two-tenths of an ephah^[a](D) for each loaf. ⁶ Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold^(E) before the Lord. ⁷ By each stack put some pure incense^(F) as a memorial^[b] portion^(G) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. ⁸ This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,^(H) Sabbath after Sabbath,^(I) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

¹⁰ “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,^(A) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased^(B) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept^(C) no offering^(D) from your hands.

³ In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired^(A) them.

¹⁷ King Ahaz cut off the side panels and removed the basins from the movable stands. He removed the Sea from the bronze bulls that supported it and set it on a stone base.^{(A) 18} He took away the Sabbath canopy^[a] that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the Lord, in deference to the king of Assyria.^(B)