7 So Aʹhaz sent messengers to Tigʹlath-pil·eʹser+ the king of As·syrʹi·a, saying: “I am your servant+ and your son. Come up and save+ me out of the palm of the king of Syria and out of the palm of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

23 And he began to sacrifice to the gods+ of Damascus+ that were striking him, and he went on to say: “Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them,+ to them I shall sacrifice, that they may help+ me.” And they themselves became to him a cause for making him and all Israel stumble.+

18 And now what concern should you have for the way of Egypt+ in order to drink the waters of Shiʹhor?*+ And what concern should you have for the way of As·syrʹi·a+ in order to drink the waters of the River?*

5 “And O·hoʹlah began to prostitute herself,+ while subject to me, and kept lusting after those passionately loving her,+ after the As·syrʹi·ans,+ who were near,