2 Kings 16:13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar. And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
The act recorded here stands within the long Jewish history that exposes the future as the direct outcome of the course pursued. For thousands of years that people were forging fetters for themselves by the choices they made. Those fetters bound them at last in a bondage that no human power could break. The history thus lays open beforehand the captivity their own actions were preparing.