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2 Kings 16:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it. "

2 Kings 16:12

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10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

11 Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.

12 When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.

13 He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

14 The bronze altar, which was before the LORD, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the LORD’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

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1 Kings 8:64

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"The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the LORD’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings."

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2 Chronicles 33:16

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"He built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel."

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1 Chronicles 21:26

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"David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering."

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1 Kings 8:62

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"The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD."

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Numbers 7:10

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"The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar."

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Exodus 40:29

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"He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as the LORD commanded Moses."

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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

"Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD his God’s eyes, like David his father."

2 Kings 16:3

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

2 Kings 16:4

"He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, 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 wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him."

2 Kings 16:6

"At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and live there to this day."

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