that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. 016:018 The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria. 016:019 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 016:020 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 017:001 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years. 017:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. 017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 017:004 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 017:005 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 017:006 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 017:007 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 017:008 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. 017:009 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 017:010 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree; 017:011 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; 017:012 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 017:013 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 017:014 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck,