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2 Kings 16:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. "

2 Kings 16:12

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10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser 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.

11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

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.

14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

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2 Chronicles 26:16-19

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"But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense."

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2 Chronicles 28:23

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"For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel."

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1 Kings 13:1

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Numbers 18:4-7

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"And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh"

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2 Chronicles 28:25

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"And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers."

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1 Chronicles 21:26

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"And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering."

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From This Chapter

2 Kings 16:1

"In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign."

2 Kings 16:2

"Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father."

2 Kings 16:3

"But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel."

2 Kings 16:4

"And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

2 Kings 16:5

"Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him."

2 Kings 16:6

"At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day."
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