2 Chronicles 28:16-25

161At that time King Ahaz sent to the 2kings of Assyria for help. 173For again the Edomites had come and attacked Judah and carried away captives. 184The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the 5lowland and of the Negev of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages, and they settled there. 19For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of 6Israel, for he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was very unfaithful to the Lord. 20So 7Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. 218Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the Lord and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.

22Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz 9became yet more unfaithful to the Lord. 2310For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had 11defeated him, and said, “12Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they became the 13downfall of him and all Israel. 24Moreover, when Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, he 14cut the utensils of the house of God in pieces; and he 15closed the doors of the house of the Lord and 16made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem. 25In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to anger.