And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser the king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me.
Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these disgusting things, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,
And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus who had struck him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me; but they were to cause him and all Israel to stumble.
And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates River?
They say, If a man sends away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you fornicate with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, a statement of Jehovah.
And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah again, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook Jehovah and did not serve Him.