And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the (i) north side of the altar.
(i) That is, at the right hand, as men went into the temple.
Verse 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...
Hereto the “Brasen altar” (marginal reference) had, it would seem, occupied a position directly in front of the temple porch, which it exactly equalled in width. Now Ahaz removed it from this place, a...
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 ...
BRASEN ALTAR. Compare 1 Kings 8:64. THE ALTAR: i.e. the new altar....
_And he brought &c._ The R.V. adheres to the Hebrew order. AND THE BRASEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE LORD, HE BROUGHT FROM THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOUSE. This brasen altar is described 2 Chronicles 4:1,...
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 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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 BRASEN ALTAR] i.e. the altar constructed by Solomon (1 Kings 8:64). This had hitherto occupied a central position in the court in front of the Temple; but now, in order to make room for the new al...
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 HE BROUGHT ALSO THE BRASEN ALTAR... — Literally, _And as for the brasen altar, he brought it near_ (to the new one), _away from the front of the house, to wit, from between the_ (new) _altar, and...
וְ אֵ֨ת הַ מִּזְבַּ֣ח הַ נְּחֹשֶׁת֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר
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;...
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...
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 from. Hebrew, "from between the new altar and the house of," &c. (Haydock) --- Achaz had placed his altar before that of Solomon: but he afterwards removed the latter from the right-hand of the sa...
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 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 Lor...
And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. Ver. 1...
_And he burned his burnt-offering_, &c. For the heathen, and Ahaz, in imitation of them, offered the same sorts of offerings to their false gods which the Israelites did to the true. _He brought also...
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 he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the Lord, the altar of burnt offering, FROM THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOUSE, FROM BETWEEN THE ALTAR, that is, the new altar, AND THE HOUSE OF THE LORD...
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...
THE BRAZEN ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERINGS, made by Solomon, and placed there by God's appointment. Which was before the Lord, i.e. from before the Lord's house: SEE POOLE ON "LEVITICUS 1:3". _From between t...
2 Kings 16:14 brought H7126 (H8686) bronze H5178 altar H4196 before H6440 LORD H3068 front H6440 altar H4196 hous
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...
2 Chronicles 1:5; 2 Chronicles 4:1; 2 Kings 16:10; Exodus 40:29;...
Brazen attar — Of burnt — offerings, made by Solomon, and placed there by God's appointment. From between, &c. — His new altar was at first set below the brazen altar, and at a farther distance from t...