so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, towards the place where you said, ‘My name will be there,’ and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays towards this place.
then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.
‘For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘They have set up their abhorrent things in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the Lord’s temple, and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever , in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
they gave it to the carpenters and builders and also used it to buy quarried stone and timbers #– #for joining and making beams #– #for the buildings that Judah’s kings had destroyed.
Uriah built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Therefore, by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus, the priest Uriah had completed it.
‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there, and I have not chosen a man to be ruler over my people Israel.