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35 But the temple of idols, were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the temple of idols.
He also built the Higher Gate of the Bayit of vuvh.
36 Now the rest of the acts of Yotam, and all that he did,
are they not written in the Scroll of the Divre HaYamim
about the melechim of Yahudah?
37 In those days vuvh began to send against Yahudah
Retzin the melech of Aram, and Pekach the son of
Remalyah.
38 And Yotam slept with his ahvot, and was buried with
his ahvot in the city of Dawid his abba: and Achaz his son
reigned in his place.
In the seventeenth year of Pekach the son of
Remalyah, Achaz the son of Yotam melech of Yahudah
began to reign.
2 Twenty years old was Achaz when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Yahrushalayim, and did not
that which was right in the sight of vuvh his Elohim,
unlike Dawid his abba.
3 But he had his halacha in the derech of the melechim of
Yisrael, and made his son to pass through the fire,
according to the abominations of the heathen, whom vuvh
cast out from before the children of Yisrael.
4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the temple of
idols, and on the hills, and under every green eytz.
5 Then Retzin melech of Aram and Pekach son of
Remalyah melech of Yisrael came up to Yahrushalayim
to war: and they besieged Achaz, but could not overcome
him.
6 At that time Retzin melech of Aram recovered Eilat for
Aram, and drove the men of Yahudah from Eilat: and the
Arameans came to Eilat, and dwelt there to this day. 991
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7 So Achaz sent messengers to Tilgath-Pilneser melech of
Ashshur, saying, I am your eved and your son: come up,
and save me out of the hand of the melech of Aram, and
out of the hand of the melech of Yisrael, who rise up
against me.
8 And Achaz took the silver and gold that was found in
the Bayit of vuvh, and in the treasures of the melech's
bayit, and sent it for a present to the melech of Ashshur.
9 And the melech of Ashshur listened to him: for the
melech of Ashshur went up against Dameshek, and took
it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and killed
Retzin.
10 And melech Achaz went to Dameshek to meet Tilgath-
Pilneser melech of Ashshur, and saw an altar that was at
Dameshek: and melech Achaz sent to Uriyah the kohen a
sketch of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its
workmanship.
11 And Uriyah the kohen built an altar according to all
that melech Achaz had sent from Dameshek: so Uriyah
the kohen made it before melech Achaz came from
Dameshek.
12 And when the melech had come from Dameshek, the
melech saw the altar: and the melech approached the
altar, and offered on it.
13 And he burned his burnt offering and his grain
offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the
dahm of his shalom offerings, upon the altar.
14 And he brought also the bronze altar, which was
before vuvh, from the forefront of the Bayit, from
between the altar and the Bayit of vuvh, and put it on the
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north side of the altar.
15 And melech Achaz commanded Uriyah the kohen,
saying, Upon the great altar burn the shachrit burnt
offering, and the maariv grain offering, and the melech's
burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt
offering of all the people of the land and their grain
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all
the dahm of the burnt offering, and all the dahm of the
sacrifice: and the bronze altar shall be for me to
inquire by.
16 This did Uriyah the kohen, according to all that
melech Achaz commanded.
17 And melech Achaz cut off the borders of the bases,
and removed the laver from off them; and took down the
huge laver from off the bronze oxen that were under it,
and put it upon a pavement of stones.
18 And the shelter for the Shabbat that they had built in
the bayit, 992 and the melech's entry outside, he took from
the Bayit of vuvh for the melech of Ashshur.
19 Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are
they not written in the Scroll of the Divre HaYamim
about the melechim of Yahudah?
20 And Achaz slept with his ahvot, and was buried with
his ahvot in the city of Dawid: and Hizqiyahu his son
reigned in his place.
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In the twelfth year of Achaz melech of Yahudah
began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Shomron over
Yisrael nine years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of vuvh, but
not as the melechim of Yisrael that were before him.
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser melech of Ashshur;
and Hoshea became his eved, and gave him presents. 993
4 And the melech of Ashshur found Hoshea in a
conspiracy: for he had sent messengers to Sho melech of
Mitzrayim, and brought no present to the melech of
Ashshur, as he had done year by year: therefore the
melech of Ashshur arrested him, and bound him in prison.
5 Then the melech of Ashshur came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three
years. 994
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the melech of Ashshur took
Shomron, and carried Yisrael away into Ashshur, and
placed them in Chalach and in Chavor by the River
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Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it was, that the children of Yisrael 998 had sinned
against vuvh their Elohim, who had brought them up out
of the land of Mitzrayim, from under the hand of Pharaoh
melech of Mitzrayim, and had feared other elohim,
8 And walked in the chukim of the heathen, whom vuvh
cast out from before the children of Yisrael, and of the
melechim of Yisrael, which they had made.
9 And the children of Yisrael did secretly those things
that were not right against vuvh their Elohim, and they
built themselves temples of idols in all their cities, from
the watchtower to the walled city.
10 And they set up images and Asherim in every high
hill, and under every green eytz:
11 And there they burned incense in all the temples of
idols, as did the heathen whom vuvh carried away before
them; and worked wicked things to provoke vuvh to
anger:
12 For they served idols, of which vuvh had said to them,