2 Kings 16:17
And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.
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16So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
18*** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
Cross References
1 Kings 7:23And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.
2 Chronicles 4:14And he made the ten bases and the ten washing-vessels which were on the bases;
2 Chronicles 29:19And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.
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 →