7. So AHAZ sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me."

8. AHAZ took the silver and gold that was found in The LORD's house, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

9. The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

10. King AHAZ went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king AHAZ sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

11. Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king AHAZ had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king AHAZ from Damascus.

12. When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.

13. He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

14. The bronze altar, which was before The LORD, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and The LORD's house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

15. King AHAZ commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king's burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by."

16. Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king AHAZ commanded.

17. King AHAZ cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

18. He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside to The LORD's house, because of the king of Assyria.

For AHAZ took away a portion out of The LORD's house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn't help him.