1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.
2. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God like David his father.
3. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel and even made his son pass through the fire according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the children of Israel.
4. He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5. Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle, and they besieged Ahaz but could not subdue him.