2Ki 16:2-4 | ESV | STEP | Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign , and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem . And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God , as his father David had done,

‏ 2 Kings 16:2-4

2 Ahaz was ^atwenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, 3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. ^bHe even burned his son as an offering, ^{▼▼Or made his son pass through the fire} ^daccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 ^eAnd he sacrificed and made offerings ^fon the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.