Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 16:15
The brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by - The bulk of modern commentators translate - “As for the Brasen altar, it will be for me to inquire (or consider) what I shall do with it.”
The brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by - The bulk of modern commentators translate - “As for the Brasen altar, it will be for me to inquire (or consider) what I shall do with it.”
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. 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 ...
GREAT ALTAR: i.e. the new altar. TO ENQUIRE. to consider further [what shall he done with it]. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ Hebrew. _bakar._ Occurs seven times (2 Kings 16:15.Leviticus 13:36; Leviticu...
_Upon the great altar_ By this name he distinguishes his own altar. We know nothing of its dimensions but we need not refer the adjective -great" to the size of the structure. The king calls it so, be...
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 fa...
_AND KING AHAZ COMMANDED URIJAH THE PRIEST, SAYING, UPON THE GREAT ALTAR BURN THE MORNING BURNT OFFERING, AND THE EVENING MEAT OFFERING, AND THE KING'S BURNT SACRIFICE, AND HIS MEAT OFFERING, WITH THE...
16:15 burn (a-13) Strictly, 'burn as incense.' see Leviticus 1:9 ; Exodus 29:13 ; 2 Chronicles 28:3 ; 2 Chronicles 29...
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....
TO ENQUIRE _by_] i.e. to obtain indications of the divine will, possibly by the inspection of the victims that were offered upon it. But some render, 'shall be left for further consideration.' If this...
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...
THE GREAT ALTAR — i.e., as we say, “the _high_ altar,” the new Syrian one. So the high priest is sometimes called “the great priest” (_kôhèn hâggâdôl_)_,_ Ahaz orders that the daily national sacrifice...
_וַ_†_יְצַוֶּ֣ה_† הַ מֶּֽלֶךְ ־אָ֠חָז אֶת ־אוּרִיָּ֨ה...
THE REIGN OF AHAZ B.C. 735-715 2 Kings 16:1 "Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams. He also against the House was bold: A l...
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 be...
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...
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the...
Morning, as prescribed in the law, Exodus xxix. 38. --- King's ordained for sin: (Leviticus iv. 22.) or instituted by Solomon, who left a fund. (Haydock) (2 Paralipomenon viii. 12.) (Menochius) --- Th...
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 Jehovah...
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;...
_And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the...
_Ahaz commanded, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering_, &c. He made a solemn injunction, that all the public sacrifices, of what sort soever they were, whether made by himself or by th...
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...
And King Ahaz commanded Urijah, the priest, saying, Upon the great altar, the new altar, which was now the principal one, BURN THE MORNING BURNT OFFERING, AND THE EVENING MEAT-OFFERING, the correspond...
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 bega...
10-16 God's altar had hitherto been kept in its place, and in use; but Ahaz put another in the room of it. The natural regard of the mind of man to some sort of religion, is not easily extinguished; b...
UPON THE GREAT ALTAR, i.e. this new altar; which was greater than Solomon s, either in quantity, or in his estimation. Whatsoever is offered to the true God, either in my name, (for possibly he did no...
2 Kings 16:15 King H4428 Ahaz H271 commanded H6680 (H8762) Urijah H223 priest H3548 saying H559 (H8800) great...
THE SUBSEQUENT BASTARDISATION OF THE TEMPLE RESULTING FROM AHAZ'S SUBMISSION. THE TEMPLE IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:12). What followed was unquestionably a bastardisation of the Temple. The ‘true' altar...
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 they...
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...
_And King Ahaz went to Damascus _. .. _ and saw an altar._ THE COSMOPOLITAN IN RELIGION This is an incident familiar to all Bible students. You know that King Ahaz, and it is saying a great deal, was...
_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 16:10 Ahaz travels to Damascus to meet his new Assyrian overlord (see note on vv. 7–9). Ahaz is so impressed by a pagan ALTAR he sees in DAMASCUS th
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 corresponding...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 16:1 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH-
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 3:4; 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Chronicles 29:21; 2 Chronicles 29:32;...
Great altar — This new altar; which was greater than Solomon's. Sacrifice — Whatsoever is offered to the true God, either in my name (for possibly he did not yet utterly forsake God, but worshipped id...