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.

²⁵ And in every single city of Judah he made ^[a]high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.