2 Kings 16:14-18 KJV,NLT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-16

Though Ahaz had himself sacrificed in high places, on hills, and under every green tree (2 Kgs. 16:4), yet God's altar had hitherto continued in its place and in use, and the king's burnt-offering and his meat-offering (2 Kgs. 16:15) had been offered upon it by the priests that attended it; but here we have it taken away by wicked Ahaz, and another altar, an idolatrous one, put in the room of it?a bolder stroke than the worst of the kings had yet given to religion. We have here, I. The model... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:17-20

Here is, I. Ahaz abusing the temple, not the building itself, but some of the furniture of it. 1. He defaced the bases on which the lavers were set (1 Kgs. 7:28, 29) and took down the molten sea, 2 Kgs. 16:17. These the priests used for washing; against them therefore he seems to have had a particular spite. It is one of the greatest prejudices that can be done to religion to obstruct the purifying of the priests, the Lord's ministers. 2. He removed the covert for the sabbath, erected either... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:14

And he brought also the brasen altar which was before the Lord ,.... That which Solomon made, 2 Chronicles 4:1 , which stood in the court by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, Leviticus 1:5 from the forefront of the house; the frontispiece of the temple, which was at the eastern gate of it: from between the altar and the house of the Lord for it seems Urijah had placed the new altar behind the old one, more out of sight; the brasen altar standing between... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:15

And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying ,.... Who was not to be commanded by the king in matters of worship, but to attend to the laws and institutions of God: saying, upon the great altar ; meaning the new one, which either was of a larger size than the altar of God, or was greater in the esteem of Ahaz: burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering ; the daily sacrifice, morning and evening: and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:16

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded. Not only concerning the structure of the altar, but the sacrifices to be offered on it; like king like priest, both apostates and idolaters. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:17

And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them ,.... In the temple there were ten lavers for the priests to wash in, which are here meant, the singular being put for the plural; and these had bases of brass, on which they were set; and about these bases were borders, which had on them figures of various creatures, lions, oxen, and cherubim; and these Ahaz cut off, either to deface them, in contempt of them, or to convert the brass to other uses, as he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:18

And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house ,.... Used on the sabbath day, either for the people to sit under to hear the law explained by the priests; or for the course of the priests to be in, that went out that day, to give way to the course that entered, which yet did not depart from the temple till evening; or rather for the king himself to sit under, while attending the temple service of that day, and might be the cover of the scaffold, 2 Chronicles 6:13 and be... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:14

Put it on the north side - He seems to have intended to conform every thing in the Lord's house as much as possible to the idolatrous temples which he saw at Damascus, and to model the Divine worship in the same way: in a word to honor and worship the gods of Syria, and not the God of heaven. All the alterations specified here were in contempt of the true God. Thus he provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers, 2 Chronicles 28:25 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:18

And the covert for the Sabbath - There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert, or, as it is in the Hebrew, the מוסך musach , of the Sabbath. As the word, and others derived from the same root, signify covering or booths, it is very likely that this means either a sort of canopy which was erected on the Sabbath days for the accommodation of the people who came to worship, and which Ahaz took away to discourage them from that worship; or a canopy under which the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH . WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN . EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH - PILESER AGAINST THEM . RELIGIOUS CHANGES MADE BY AHAZ . HIS DEATH . read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:17-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

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