⁷ The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

²⁴ And 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.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

³ Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.

⁴ Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.

⁵ And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.

⁶ And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.

⁷ And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁸ Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.

¹⁷ And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

¹⁸ *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

³ In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.

¹⁰ If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.