2 Kings 16:11
And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
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2 Kings 16:16So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
2 Kings 21:7He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:4And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.
Jeremiah 23:11For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Daniel 3:7So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.
Hosea 5:11Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:11-17
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. 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. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and… Read the whole commentary →