⁷ Ahaz sent messengers to say to Tiglath-Pileser^(A) king of Assyria, “I am your servant and vassal. Come up and save^(B) me out of the hand of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.” ⁸ And Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a gift^(C) to the king of Assyria. ⁹ The king of Assyria complied by attacking Damascus^(D) and capturing it. He deported its inhabitants to Kir^(E) and put Rezin to death.

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

¹⁹ The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,^[a] for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful^(A) to the Lord. ²⁰ Tiglath-Pileser^[b](B) king of Assyria^(C) came to him, but he gave him trouble^(D) instead of help.^{(E) 21} Ahaz^(F) took some of the things from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.^(G)