This king, Ahaz, was the son and grandson of two good kings and yet he is forever know as the king who “brought Judah low,” and the one who “had encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the LORD.” Not only did he see a pagan altar in Syria and had a duplicate made to replace the brazen altar in God’s temple in Jerusalem, but he also practiced child sacrifice. Rather than repent before God when chasten through defeat, he increased his animosity towards God in outward pagan displays.