What does 2 Kings 16:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones."
See the marginal references. The acts recorded here, were probably not mere wanton acts of mutilation, but steps in the conversion of these sacred objects to other uses, as to the ornamentation of a p...
7. KING AHAZ AND ASSYRIA CHAPTER 16 _ 1. King Ahaz and his reign (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Chronicles 28)_ 2. The invasion by the two kings (2 Kings 16:5) 3. Ahaz appeals to Assyria (2 Kings 16:7) 4. Ahaz...
2 KINGS 16. REIGN OF AHAZ. This chapter is assigned to different sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple, though it alludes to his apostasy and his wars. The Temple record ...
THE LAVER. Compare 1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chronicles 28:24; 2 Chronicles 28:25. THE SEA. Compare 1 Kings 7:23....
_Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases_ For a description of these bases, which were moveable stands to carry the lavers used for the sacrifices, see 1 Kings 7:27-39. The borders were of highly wrough...
B. THE REIGN OF AHAZ 16:1-20 Considerable attention is devoted to Ahaz because of the religious significance of his reign. For the first time since the bloody reign of Athaliah, the Davidic dynasty f...
_AND KING AHAZ CUT OFF THE BORDERS OF THE BASES, AND REMOVED THE LAVER FROM OFF THEM; AND TOOK DOWN THE SEA FROM OFF THE BRASEN OXEN THAT WERE UNDER IT, AND PUT IT UPON A PAVEMENT OF STONES._ Cut off...
AHAZ AND ASSYRIA This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 AHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Ahaz, Jotham’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. That was in the 17th year of...
AND KING AHAZ CUT OFF. — The key to the right understanding of these verses is given in the last words of 2 Kings 16:18. Ahaz spoiled the Temple of its ornamental work, not out of wanton malice, but f...
וַ יְקַצֵּץ֩ הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ אָחָ֜ז אֶת ־הַ מִּסְגְּרֹ֣ות הַ מְּכֹנֹ֗ות וַ יָּ֤סַר מֵֽ עֲלֵיהֶם֙ _אֶת_
THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ 2 Kings 16:1 "For when we in our wickedness grow hard, Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our errors;...
HIGH-HANDED IDOLATRY 2 Kings 16:10 The calling in of the king of Assyria was fraught with disastrous consequences. “He distressed him and strengthened him not.” Well may the Apostle warn us not to b...
Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under Tiglathpileser in his time of difficulty, and this was by deliberat...
_Stone, all out of avarice, (Haydock) and contempt of the Lord, who chastized him. (Menochius) --- He took away the plates of brass, c., from the doors, (Calmet) which Ezechias was forced to replace,...
I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view, because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contemplat...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehova...
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 fo...
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. Ver. 17...
_Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen_, &c. Probably that he might dispose of them, or of the brass of them, in some other way; perhaps that he might t...
1 Ahaz his wicked reigne. 5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hireth Tiglath Pileser against them. 10 Ahaz sending a paterne of an Altar from Damascus to Urijah, diuerteth the brasen Altar to his ow...
AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ (vv.1-4). Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was 20 years old when he beg...
17-20 Ahaz put contempt upon the sabbath, and thus opened a wide inlet to all manner of sin. This he did for the king of Assyria. When those who have had a ready passage to the house of the Lord, turn...
Which he did, either to express his contempt of them, or to render them inconvenient for the uses to which they had been designed; or to dispose of them, or of the brass of them, in some other place a...
2 Kings 16:17 King H4428 Ahaz H271 off H7112 (H8762) panels H4526 carts H4350 removed H5493 (H8686) lavers H3595 down H3381 (H8689) Sea H3220 bronze H5178 oxen H1241 put H5414 (H8799) pavement H4837 s...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ KING OF JUDAH C. 732/1-716/15 BC. CO-REGENT FROM 744/43 BC. Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in Judah's history. Never before in that history had the...
CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz over Judah. Assyrians take Damascus. CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Tiglath-pileser, Urijah, Rezin, Pekah. CONCLUSION: That religion is of no worth which is guided by fancy instead o...
2 Kings 16:3. Ahaz _made his son pass through the fire._ It appears from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a god by lustrations; that is, by causing him to pass between two...
_In the seventeenth year of Pekah._ A PEOPLE’S KING AND PRIEST, OR KINGHOOD AND PRIESTHOOD I. The kinghood. 1. The de-humanising force of false religion. Ahaz was an idolator. 2. The national curs...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 16:17 CUT OFF THE FRAMES... TOOK DOWN THE SEA. See 1 Kings 7:23. Ahaz desecrates the furnishings of the temple in order not to offend his new master, Tiglath-pileser (BECAUSE O...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 16:2. TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAB WHEN, &c.—The _Sept._ MS. of the Vatican, and other MSS., give “_twenty-five_” in the correspondin...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 16:1 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. 2 KINGS 16:1 _General char...
Now in the seventeenth year of Pekah, Remaliah or the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign (2 Kings 16:1). Ahaz the son of Jotham. So you have now an Ahaz reigning. Us...
1 Kings 7:23; 1 Kings 7:23; 1 Kings 7:27; 2 Chronicles 28:24; 2 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 4:14; 2 Chronicles 4:15; 2 Kings 25:13; Jeremiah 52:20...