5Then Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war; and besieged Ahaz, but could not conquer him. 6At that time, King Rezin did recover Elath for Syria, driving the Jews from there; and the Syrians came and settled in Elath, as it is this day. 7So Ahaz sent this message to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, “I am your servant and your son; come up, and rescue me from the kings of Syria, and of Israel, who rise up against me”. 8And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the temple of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 9And the king of Assyria responded by attacking and capturing Damascus, and took its people as captives to Kir, and killed Rezin.

10And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, and saw an altar at Damascus; and Ahaz sent a sketch of the altar to Uriah, the priest, with detail plans for its construction. 11And Uriah (Urijah), the priest, built an altar based upon the construction plans that King Ahaz had sent him from Damascus; and Urijah, the priest, finished it before King Ahaz came from Damascus. 12And when King Ahaz returned from Damascus, he king saw and inspected the altar, then presented offerings on it. 13And he offered his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar. 14And he also brought the bronze altar, that had been before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, between the new altar and the temple of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. 15And King Ahaz commanded Uriah, the priest, “Upon the large new altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it the blood of the burnt offering, and of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16And Uriah did according to all that King Ahaz commanded. 17And King Ahaz removed the side panels of the bases, and the laver (basin); and the sea from off the bronze bulls that supported it, and set it upon a pavement of stones. 18And the removed the canopy for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entrance outside, he turned from the temple of the LORD in deference to the king of Assyria.

19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah, his son, reigned in his stead.