2 Kings 16

1 in/on/with year seven ten year to/for Pekah son: child Remaliah to reign Ahaz son: child Jotham king Judah

In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

2 son: aged twenty year Ahaz in/on/with to reign he and six ten year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and not to make: do [the] upright in/on/with eye: appearance LORD God his like/as David father his

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

3 and to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct king Israel and also [obj] son: child his to pass in/on/with fire like/as abomination [the] nation which to possess: take LORD [obj] them from face: before son: descendant/people Israel

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

4 and to sacrifice and to offer: offer in/on/with high place and upon [the] hill and underneath: under all tree luxuriant

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

5 then to ascend: rise Rezin king Syria and Pekah son: child Remaliah king Israel Jerusalem to/for battle and to confine upon Ahaz and not be able to/for to fight

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

6 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to return: rescue Rezin king Syria [obj] Elath to/for Syria and to slip [obj] [the] Jew from Eloth (and Edomite *Q(K)*) to come (in): come Elath and to dwell there till [the] day: today [the] this

At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.

7 and to send: depart Ahaz messenger to(wards) Tiglath-pileser Tiglath-pileser king Assyria to/for to say servant/slave your and son: child your I to ascend: rise and to save me from palm king Syria and from palm king Israel [the] to arise: attack upon me

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”

8 and to take: take Ahaz [obj] [the] silver: money and [obj] [the] gold [the] to find house: temple LORD and in/on/with treasure house: home [the] king and to send: depart to/for king Assyria bribe

Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

9 and to hear: hear to(wards) him king Assyria and to ascend: rise king Assyria to(wards) Damascus and to capture her and to reveal: remove her Kir [to] and [obj] Rezin to die

So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

10 and to go: went [the] king Ahaz to/for to encounter: meet Tiglath-pileser Tiglath-pileser king Assyria Damascus and to see: see [obj] [the] altar which in/on/with Damascus and to send: depart [the] king Ahaz to(wards) Uriah [the] priest [obj] likeness [the] altar and [obj] pattern his to/for all deed: work his

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

11 and to build Uriah [the] priest [obj] [the] altar like/as all which to send: depart [the] king Ahaz from Damascus so to make Uriah [the] priest till to come (in): come [the] king Ahaz from Damascus

And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.

12 and to come (in): come [the] king from Damascus and to see: see [the] king [obj] [the] altar and to present: come [the] king upon [the] altar and to ascend: offer up upon him

When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

13 and to offer: burn [obj] burnt offering his and [obj] offering his and to pour [obj] drink offering his and to scatter [obj] blood [the] peace offering which to/for him upon [the] altar

He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

14 and [obj] [the] altar [the] bronze which to/for face: before LORD and to present: come from with face: before [the] house: home from between [the] altar and from between house: temple LORD and to give: put [obj] him upon thigh [the] altar north [to]

He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.

15 (and to command *Q(K)*) [the] king Ahaz [obj] Uriah [the] priest to/for to say upon [the] altar [the] great: large to offer: burn [obj] burnt offering [the] morning and [obj] offering [the] evening and [obj] burnt offering [the] king and [obj] offering his and [obj] burnt offering all people [the] land: country/planet and offering their and drink offering their and all blood burnt offering and all blood sacrifice upon him to scatter and altar [the] bronze to be to/for me to/for to enquire

Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”

16 and to make: do Uriah [the] priest like/as all which to command [the] king Ahaz

So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

17 and to cut [the] king Ahaz [obj] [the] perimeter [the] base and to turn aside: remove from upon them ([obj] *Q(K)*) [the] basin and [obj] [the] sea to go down from upon [the] cattle [the] bronze which underneath: under her and to give: put [obj] him upon pavement stone

King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.

18 and [obj] (portico *Q(K)*) [the] Sabbath which to build in/on/with house: home and [obj] entrance [the] king [the] outer to turn: surround house: temple LORD from face: because king Assyria

And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

19 and remainder word: deed Ahaz which to make: do not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Judah

As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

20 and to lie down: be dead Ahaz with father his and to bury with father his in/on/with city David and to reign Hezekiah son: child his underneath: instead him

And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.