1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the Lord his God’s eyes, like David his father.
3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4. He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5. Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.