20Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.
21For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was no help to him.
22And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
23For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.
24And Ahaz got together the vessels of the house of God, cutting up all the vessels of the house of God, and shutting the doors of the Lord's house; and he made altars in every part of Jerusalem.
25And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.
26Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.