Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of the house of YHWH; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to YHWH’s porch. They sanctified the house of YHWH in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.