¹⁰ King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw there their [heathen] altar. King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a model of the altar and an exact pattern for its construction.

¹¹ So Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, finishing it before King Ahaz returned.

¹² When the king came from Damascus, he looked at the altar and offered on it.

¹³ King Ahaz burned his burnt offering and his cereal offering, poured his drink offering, and dashed the blood of his peace offerings upon that altar.

¹⁴ The bronze altar which was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from between his [new] altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

¹⁵ And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest: Upon the principal (the new) altar, burn the morning burnt offering, the evening cereal offering, the king’s burnt sacrifice and his cereal offering, with the burnt offering and cereal offering and drink offering of all the people of the land; and dash upon the [new] altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and the sacrifices. But the [old] bronze altar shall be kept for me to use to inquire by [of the Lord].

¹⁶ Urijah the priest did all this as King Ahaz commanded.

⁴ And he built [heathen] altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put My ^[a]Name [and the pledge of My presence].

⁵ And he [good Hezekiah’s son] built altars for all the hosts of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the Lord!