reply to post by In nothing we trust
I did a little more research into this. It seems as though Ahaz was king before his son Hezeki'ah took over. Ahaz was not right with God.
2 Chronicles 28:1-4 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was
right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: 2 for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Ba'alim. 3
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD
had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green
tree.
He was into worshiping other gods. Which are not gods. So God let foreign invaders besiege Jerusalem. Ahaz asked for help from Assyria. Where,
when the battles subsided, he visited. There he saw an alter that he had to have.
2 Kings 16:10-12 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tig'lath–pile'ser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king
Ahaz sent to Uri'jah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 11And Uri'jah the priest
built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Uri'jah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12And when
the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the dial. It may. I need to read into this more.
