1 No ano dezessete do reinado de Pecá, filho de Romelia, Acaz, filho de Joatão, rei de Judá, começou a reinar.

2 Tinha vinte anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou durante dezesseis anos em Jerusalém; não fez o que era bom aos olhos do Senhor, seu Deus, como Davi, seu pai, mas seguiu as pegadas dos reis de Israel.

3 Chegou até a passar seu filho pelo fogo, segundo o abominável costume dos povos que o Senhor tinha expulsado de diante dos filhos de Israel.

4 Oferecia sacrifícios e incenso nos lugares altos, nas colinas e debaixo de toda árvore frondosa.

5 Então Rasin, rei da Síria, e Pecá, filho de Romelia, rei de Israel, subiram e atacaram Jerusalém; cercaram Acaz, mas não o puderam vencer.

6 Por aquele mesmo tempo, Rasin, rei da Síria, restituiu Elat aos edomitas, depois de ter expulsado dela os filhos de Judá, e os edomitas voltaram a Elat, onde estão até o dia de hoje.

7 Acaz tinha enviado delegados a Teglat-Falasar, rei da Assíria para dizer-lhe: Eu sou teu servo e teu filho. Vem e livra-me das mãos do rei da Síria e do rei de Israel, que se coligaram contra mim.

8 Acaz tomou a prata e o ouro que se encontravam no templo do Senhor e nas reservas do palácio real, e mandou-os de presente ao rei da Assíria.

9 Este aquiesceu ao seu pedido: atacou Damasco e apoderou-se dela. Deportou a sua população para Quir e matou Rasin.

10 O rei Acaz foi a Damasco para entrevistar-se com Teglat-Falasar, rei da Assíria. Vendo o altar que se encontrava em Damasco, o rei Acaz mandou ao sacerdote Urias um modelo detalhado do mesmo com todas as suas dimensões.

11 Urias construiu um altar exatamente conforme ao desenho que o rei Acaz lhe enviara de Damasco, e terminou-o antes que o rei voltasse.

12 Quando o rei chegou de Damasco e viu o altar, aproximou-se e subiu a ele.

13 Queimou nele o seu holocausto e sua oblação, derramou libações e espargiu o sangue de seus sacrifícios pacíficos.

14 Quanto ao altar de bronze que estava diante do Senhor, tirou-o de diante do templo, entre o altar novo e o templo, e pô-lo ao norte do novo altar.

15 Depois ordenou ao sacerdote Urias: Queimarás no grande altar o holocausto da manhã e a oblação da tarde, o holocausto do rei e a sua oblação, o holocausto do povo e a sua oblação, e derramarás sobre ele todo o sangue dos holocaustos e dos sacrifícios. Quanto ao altar de bronze, deliberarei eu depois.

16 O sacerdote Urias fez tudo o que lhe ordenara o rei Acaz.

17 Além disso, desmontou o rei Acaz os quadros e os pedestais e tirou de cima as bacias; desceu o mar de bronze de cima dos bois de bronze que o suportavam e pô-lo sobre um suporte de pedra.

18 Tirou também do templo do Senhor, por causa do rei da Assíria, o pórtico do sábado que fora construído no edifício, e a entrada exterior do rei.

19 O resto da história de Acaz, seus atos e grandes feitos, tudo se acha consignado no livro das Crônicas dos reis de Judá.

20 Acaz adormeceu com seus pais e foi sepultado com eles na cidade de Davi. Seu filho Ezequias sucedeu-lhe no trono.

1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and 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 make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.

6 At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.

7 So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.

8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.

9 And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

10 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.

11 And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

12 And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.

13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.

14 And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

17 And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

18 *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

19 Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

20 And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.