24 Ahaz collected all the furnishings of the temple and smashed them to pieces. Then he locked the doors to the temple and set up altars to foreign gods on every street corner in Jerusalem.
25 In every city and town in Judah he built local shrines to worship foreign gods. All this made the Lord God of his ancestors very angry.
26 Everything else Ahaz did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
27 Ahaz died and was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the royal tombs. His son Hezekiah then became king.