^7 (A)They have also shut up the doors of the vestibule, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

²⁴ So Ahaz gathered the articles of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles of the house of God, ^(A)shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

^2 (A)“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually. ³ Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations. ⁴ He shall ^[a]be in charge of the lamps on ^(B)the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵ “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(C)cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶ You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, ^(D)on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^(E)memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^8 (F)Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

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

^17 (A)And King Ahaz cut off ^(B)the panels of the carts, and removed the lavers from them; and he took down ^(C)the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones. ¹⁸ Also he removed the Sabbath pavilion which they had built in the temple, and he removed the king’s outer entrance from the house of the Lord, on account of the king of Assyria.