24. In addition, he took all the temple equipment and broke it in pieces. He closed the Temple and set up altars in every part of Jerusalem.
25. In every city and town in Judah, he built pagan places of worship, where incense was to be burnt to foreign gods. In this way he brought on himself the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
26. All the other events of his reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
27. King Ahaz died and was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the royal tombs. His son Hezekiah succeeded him as king.