2 Kings 16 · Verse 10

2 Kings 16:10

And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
2 Kings 16:10, King James Version

2 Kings 16:10 in other translations

BSBThen King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
WEBKing Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
ASVAnd king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
YLTAnd king Ahaz goeth to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur at Damascus, and seeth the altar that is in Damascus, and king Ahaz sendeth unto Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its work,
DARBYAnd king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria; and he saw the altar that was at Damascus, and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the form of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all its workmanship.
BBEThen King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
WebsterAnd king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it.

What does 2 Kings 16:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 16:10-16
10-16. And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser--This was a visit of respect, and perhaps of gratitude. During his stay in that heathen city, Ahaz saw an altar with which he was greatly captivated. Forthwith a sketch of it was transmitted to Jerusalem, with orders to Urijah the priest to get one constructed according to the Damascus model, and let this new altar supersede the old one in the temple. Urijah, with culpable complaisance, acted according to his instructions (2Ki 16:16). The sin in this affair consisted in meddling with, and improving according to human taste and fancy, the altars of the temple, the patterns of which had been furnished by divine authority (Ex 25:40; 26:30; 27:1; 1Ch 28:19). Urijah was one of the witnesses taken by Isaiah to bear his prediction against Syria and Israel (Is 8:2). 2Ki 16:17-19. He Spoils the Temple.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Ahaz went to Damascus - He had received so much help on the defeat of Rezin, that he went to Damascus to meet the king of Assyria, and render him thanks. Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar - This was some idolatrous altar, the shape and workmanship of which pleased Ahaz so well that he determined to have one like it at Jerusalem. For this he had no Divine authority, and the compliance of Urijah was both mean and sinful. That Ahaz did this for an idolatrous purpose, is evident from 2Chr 28:21-25 : "For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus; - and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. And he made high places to burn incense to other gods in every city of Judah."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 16:10-16
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; but except it be regulated by the word, and by the Spirit of God, it produces absurd superstitions, or detestable idolatries. Or, at best, it quiets the sinner's conscience with unmeaning ceremonies. Infidels have often been remarkable for believing ridiculous falsehoods.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Kings 16:10 in the original Hebrew

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וַיֵּ֣לֶךְvai.Ye.lekhand he wentH1980
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
אָחָ֡ז'a.ChazAhazH271
לִ֠קְרַאתLik.ratto meetH7122
תִּגְלַ֨תtig.LatTiglath-H8407
פִּלְאֶ֤סֶרpil.'E.serpileserH8407
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
אַשּׁוּר֙'a.ShurAssyriaH804
דּוּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdu.Me.sekDamascusH1834
וַיַּ֥רְאvai.Yar'and he sawH7200
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַha.miz.Be.achthe altarH4196
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
בְּדַמָּ֑שֶׂקbe.da.Ma.sek[was] in DamascusH1834
וַיִּשְׁלַח֩vai.yish.Lachand he sentH7971
הַמֶּ֨לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
אָחָ֜ז'a.ChazAhazH271
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אוּרִיָּ֣ה'u.ri.YahUriahH223
הַכֹּהֵ֗ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
דְּמ֧וּתde.Mut[the] likeness ofH1823
הַמִּזְבֵּ֛חַha.miz.Be.achthe altarH4196
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
תַּבְנִית֖וֹtav.ni.Topattern itsH8403
לְכָֽל\־le.kholfor allH3605
מַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ\׃ma.'a.Se.huwork itsH4639

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Cross references for 2 Kings 16:10

  • Romans 12:2

    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

  • Isaiah 8:2

    And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

  • Ezekiel 23:16-17

    And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

  • Psalms 106:39

    Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

  • 2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

  • 1 Peter 1:18

    Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

  • 2 Chronicles 28:23-25

    For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.

  • Ezekiel 43:11

    And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

  • Matthew 15:6

    And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:19

    All this, said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

  • Ezekiel 43:8

    In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

  • Jeremiah 10:2

    Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
saw an altar.
De 12:30; 2Ch 28:23-25; Jer 10:2; Eze 23:16,17; Ro 12:2; 1Pe 1:18
the pattern.
Ex 24:4; 39:43; 1Ch 28:11,12,19; Ps 106:39; Eze 43:8,11; Mt 15:6,9

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Context

  • 2 Kings 16:9

    And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

  • 2 Kings 16:10

    And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

  • 2 Kings 16:11

    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.

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2 Kings 16:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y fué el rey Achâz á encontrar á Tiglath-pileser rey de Asiria en Damasco; y visto que hubo el rey Achâz el altar que estaba en Damasco, envió á Urías sacerdote el diseño y la descripción del altar, conforme á toda su hechura.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le roi Achaz s’en alla à la rencontre de Tiglath-Piléser, roi d’Assyrie, à Damas; et il vit l’autel qui était à Damas; et le roi Achaz envoya à Urie, le sacrificateur, la forme de l’autel et son modèle, selon toute sa façon.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und der König Ahas zog Tiglath-Pileser, dem König von Assyrien, entgegen, nach Damaskus. Und als er den Altar sah, der zu Damaskus war, da sandte der König Ahas dem Priester Urija das Gleichnis des Altars und dessen Abbild nach seiner ganzen Bauart.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Perrexitque rex Achaz in occursum Theglathphalasar regis Assyriorum in Damascum: cumque vidisset altare Damasci, misit rex Achaz ad Uriam sacerdotem exemplar ejus, et similitudinem juxta omne opus ejus.