2 Kings 16:11

Translations

Modern

And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; so did Urijah the priest until came back King Ahaz from Damascus.

Latin

Exstruxitque Urias sacerdos altare: juxta omnia quæ præceperat rex Achaz de Damasco, ita fecit sacerdos Urias donec veniret rex Achaz de Damasco.

Original

Hebrew

English

And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.

Notes

2 Kings 16:10–11

Ahaz noticed the altar of the Arameans and had a copy made to imitate their religious practices.

Theme notes and profiles

Ahaz Arameans Assyria Fearing People

Events

Reign of Ahaz

Related verses

2 Chronicles 26:17–18
Then Azariah the priest, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Isaiah 8:2
And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
Jeremiah 23:11
“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
Daniel 3:7
Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Malachi 2:7–9
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
1 Kings 21:11–13
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.

Parallels

2 Chronicles 28:16–27

People

Ahaz: King of Judah, son of Jotham Uriah: Priest during the reign of King Ahaz

Places

Damascus: Ancient city, capital of Syria, important in biblical history

Glossary

Ahaz (King) Alliance Immanuel Kings, Books of First and Second Nineveh, Ninevite Oholah and Oholibah Syria, Syrians Uriah

Topics

Ahaz: Visits Damascus Altars of Ahaz Church and State: State Superior to Religion: Ahaz, in Transforming the Altars Kings: Who Reigned Over Judah: Ahaz Prophecies Concerning Israel: Ahaz Changes the Nature of the Altar in the Temple Temple: Solomon's: Ahaz Changes the Pattern of the Altar In The Altar of Burnt-Offering: Ahaz Removed and Profaned Urijah: A Priest in Ahaz: Builds a New Altar for Ahaz

2 Kings 16:11

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