2 Kings 16:10
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
The sixteenth chapter of Second Kings belongs to the history of Israel in which the nation's own course of action helped forge the fetters of its later bondage. That course is presented as self-chosen conduct that bound the people toward future captivity. Its place in the record is therefore as one part of the actions by which Israel prepared its own enslavement.