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 king of Judah, began to reign.

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 began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, as David his ancestor had done.

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 way of the kings of Israel; indeed, he made his son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations, which Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

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

He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, 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 Jerusalem to attack. They besieged Ahaz, but they could not conquer 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 and drove the men of Judah out of Elath. Then the Arameans came to Elath where they have lived 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 hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who have attacked 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

So Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh and among the treasures 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

Then the king of Assyria listened to him, and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, conquered it and carried off its people as prisoners to Kir. He also killed Rezin the king of Aram.

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

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. At Damascus he saw an altar. He sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar and its pattern and the design for all the workmanship needed.

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

So Uriah the priest built an altar to be just like the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. He finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.

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 from Damascus he saw the altar; the king approached the altar and made 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 made his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship 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]

The bronze altar that was before Yahweh—he brought it from the front of the temple, from between his altar and the temple of Yahweh and put it on the north side of his 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, saying, “On the large altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar will be for me to consult for guidance.”

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

Uriah the priest did just what King Ahaz 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

Then King Ahaz removed the panels and the basins from the portable stands; he also took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.

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

He removed the covered walkway for the Sabbath that they had built at the temple, along with the king's entry outside the temple of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria.

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 other matters concerning Ahaz and what he did, are they not written in the book of the events 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

Ahaz slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. Hezekiah his son became king in his place.