2 Kings 16:12-20

International Standard Version

¹² When the king returned from Damascus, as soon as he saw the altar, he^[a] approached it and offered sacrifices on it. ¹³ He presented a burnt offering, a meat offering, poured out a drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of a peace offering on his altar. ¹⁴ Then he took the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from in front of the Temple, moved it to the north side of his altar, ¹⁵ and issued these orders to Uriah the priest:

¹⁶ So Uriah the priest did precisely what King Ahaz ordered. ¹⁷ Later, King Ahaz ordered the side panels removed from the bases, along with the washing bowls that had stood on top of the bases. He also removed the large bowl that was called the Sea from on top of the bronze bulls that supported it, and put it on a stone base. ¹⁸ Then Ahaz removed the covered walkway for use on the Sabbath that they had built in the Temple. Because of the king of Assyria, he also removed the outside entrance from the Lord’s Temple that had been built exclusively^[b] for the king.

¹⁹ Now the rest of Ahaz’s activities are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not? ²⁰ Later, Ahaz died, as did^[c] his ancestors, and was buried alongside his ancestors in the City of David. His son Hezekiah reigned in his place.