2 Kings 16:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

² Ahaz was twenty years old when he began his sixteen-year reign in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his [forefather].

³ But he walked in the ways of Israel’s kings, yes, and made his son pass through the fire [and offered him as a sacrifice], in accord with the abominable [idolatrous] practices of the [heathen] nations whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.