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but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering,[a] according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.[b] And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali′ah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 16:3 Or made his son to pass through the fire
  2. 16.3 Human sacrifice to Moloch was practiced in Phoenicia.

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