8. Ahaz took the silver and gold from the Temple and the palace treasury and sent it as a present to the emperor.
9. Tiglath Pileser, in answer to Ahaz' plea, marched out with his army against Damascus, captured it, killed King Rezin, and took the people to Kir as prisoners.
10. When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Emperor Tiglath Pileser, he saw the altar there and sent back to Uriah the priest an exact model of it, down to the smallest details.
11. So Uriah built an altar just like it, and finished it before Ahaz returned.
12. On his return from Damascus, Ahaz saw that the altar was finished,
13. so he burnt animal sacrifices and grain offerings on it, and poured a wine offering and the blood of a fellowship offering on it.
14. The bronze altar dedicated to the Lord was between the new altar and the Temple, so Ahaz moved it to the north side of his new altar.
15. Then he ordered Uriah: “Use this large altar of mine for the morning burnt offerings and the evening grain offerings, for the burnt offerings and grain offerings of the king and the people, and for the people's wine offerings. Pour on it the blood of all the animals that are sacrificed. But keep the bronze altar for me to use for divination.”