Holy Scripture
2 Kings 16:18
A church father on this verse
“I certainly do not think that he built [the altar] for the God of all things but just for certain of those who are falsely called gods. This is what the book of Chronicles points out. It reads, "In the time of his distress this king Ahaz became yet more faithless to the Lord. For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And he made a base for the throne in the house of the Lord, and he turned the king’s entrance without in the house of the Lord because of the king of the Assyrians.
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16And Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded him.
17And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from the brazen oxen that were under it, and set it upon a base of stone.
— 2 Kings 16:18 —
19And the rest of the acts of Ahaz, even all that he did, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.