2 Kings 16:1-6

New American Standard Bible

Ahaz Reigns over Judah

16 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, ^(A)Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king. ^2 (B)Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for 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, ^(C)and he even made his son pass through the fire, ^(D)in accordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had ^[a]driven out before the sons of Israel. ⁴ And he ^(E)sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

⁵ Then ^(F)Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for war; and they besieged Ahaz, ^(G)but ^[b]were not capable of fighting him. ⁶ At that time Rezin king of Aram restored ^(H)Elath to Aram, and drove the Judeans away from ^[c]Elath; and the ^[d]Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.