2 Kings 16:12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2 Kings 16:12 in other translations
| BSB | When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it. |
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| WEB | When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it. |
| ASV | And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon. |
| YLT | And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it, |
| DARBY | And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it. |
| BBE | And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it. |
| Webster | And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it. |
What does 2 Kings 16:12 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…
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…
2 Kings 16:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 16:12
- 2 Chronicles 26:16-19
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men: And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God. Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar.
- 2 Chronicles 28:25
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.
- Numbers 18:4-7
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- 1 Kings 13:1
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23
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.
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1Ki 13:1; 2Ch 26:16-19; 28:23,25
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Nu 18:4-7
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Context
- 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.
- 2 Kings 16:12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
- 2 Kings 16:13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
2 Kings 16:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y luego que vino el rey de Damasco, y hubo visto el altar, acercóse el rey á él, y sacrificó en él; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le roi revint de Damas, et le roi vit l’autel, et le roi s’approcha de l’autel, et y offrit; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und als der König von Damaskus kam, und der König den Altar sah, da trat der König an den Altar und opferte darauf; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque venisset rex de Damasco, vidit altare, et veneratus est illud: ascenditque et immolavit holocausta et sacrificium suum, |