2 Chronicles 28:24

cut in pieces the vessels Presumably in order to smelt them and put the metal to other uses; cp. 2 Kings 24:13. According to 2 Kings 16:17 Ahaz merely "cut off the borders (-panels" R.V. mg.) 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 stone." In Chron. something more than this is suggested, for "the vessels" would naturally mean such vessels as are mentioned in 2 Kings 24:13.

shut up the doors The Chronicler perhaps misunderstands the difficult passage 2 Kings 16:18 (videA.V. and R.V.). That passage speaks of an alteration carried out by Ahaz on one of the entrances to the Temple, but says nothing of a complete closing of the Temple; indeed it may be gathered from 2 Kings 16:14-16 that the daily service went on with one great change, viz. that the king's new altar was used instead of the brazen altar.