10. Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.

11. So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned.

12. When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

13. He offered up his burnt offering and grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings on the altar.

14. As for the bronze altar that stood before the LORD he brought from the front of the temple--from between the new altar and the temple of the LORD -and put it on the north side of the new altar.

15. King Ahaz then gave these orders to Uriah the priest: "On the large new altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar for seeking guidance."

16. And Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had ordered.

17. King Ahaz took away the side panels and removed the basins from the movable stands. He removed the Sea from the bronze bulls that supported it and set it on a stone base.

18. He took away the Sabbath canopy that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the LORD, in deference to the king of Assyria.

19. As for the other events of the reign of Ahaz, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

20. Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.