2 Kings 16:1-9

1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, 1Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king. 22Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done. 3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, 3and he even made his son pass through the fire, 4in accordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had 5driven out before the sons of Israel. 4And he 6sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

5Then 7Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for war; and they besieged Ahaz, 8but 9were not capable of fighting him. 6At that time Rezin king of Aram restored 10Elath to Aram, and drove the Judeans away from 11Elath; and the 12Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.

713So Ahaz sent messengers to 14Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the 15hand of the king of Aram, and from the 16hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.” 8And 17Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a gift to the king of Assyria. 918So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and 19captured it, and led the people of it into exile to 20Kir, and put Rezin to death.