
Text -- 2 Kings 16:14 (NET)




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Of burnt offerings, made by Solomon, and placed there by God's appointment.

Wesley: 2Ki 16:14 - -- His new altar was at first set below the brazen altar, and at a farther distance from the temple. This he took for a disparagement to his altar; and t...
His new altar was at first set below the brazen altar, and at a farther distance from the temple. This he took for a disparagement to his altar; and therefore impiously takes that away, and puts his in its place.

Wesley: 2Ki 16:14 - -- So he put God's altar out of its place and use! A bolder stroke than the very worst of kings had hitherto given to religion.
So he put God's altar out of its place and use! A bolder stroke than the very worst of kings had hitherto given to religion.
JFB -> 2Ki 16:10-16
JFB: 2Ki 16:10-16 - -- 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. F...
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 (Exo 25:40; Exo 26:30; Exo 27:1; 1Ch 28:19). Urijah was one of the witnesses taken by Isaiah to bear his prediction against Syria and Israel (Isa 8:2).
Clarke -> 2Ki 16:14
Clarke: 2Ki 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 ...
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 model the Divine worship in the same way: in a word to honor and worship the gods of Syria, and not the God of heaven. All the alterations specified here were in contempt of the true God. Thus he provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers, 2Ch 28:25.
TSK -> 2Ki 16:14

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Barnes -> 2Ki 16:14
Barnes: 2Ki 16:14 - -- Hereto the "Brasen altar"(marginal reference) had, it would seem, occupied a position directly in front of the temple porch, which it exactly equall...
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, and gave the honorable position to his new altar, which he designed to supersede the old far all ordinary purposes 2Ki 16:15.
From between the altar ... - Urijah, having received no official directions, had placed the new altar in front of the old, between it and the eastern gate of the court. Ahaz consequently on his arrival found the brasen altar "between the (new) altar and the house of the Lord."
Poole -> 2Ki 16:14
Poole: 2Ki 16:14 - -- 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 Lor...
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 "Lev 1:3" . From between the altar and the house of the Lord ; or rather, from between his altar , &c., or, that altar , &c. His new altar was at first set below the brazen altar, and at a further distance from the temple. This he took for a disparagement to his altar; and therefore most impiously and audaciously takes that away, and puts his in its place.
On the north side of the altar or, of that altar ; or, of his altar ; as before. So he put God’ s altar out of its place and use.
Haydock -> 2Ki 16:14
Haydock: 2Ki 16:14 - -- 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 aft...
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 sanctuary, to a corner of the court, on the north side. (Calmet) ---
In the midst of his distress, he despised God; sacrificed to the gods of the Syrians, as more powerful and victorious than the Lord; pillaged the temple, which he shut up during the remainder of his reign, (Haydock) and erected altars for himself in all the corners of Jerusalem, 2 Paralipomenon xxviii. 24.
Gill -> 2Ki 16:14
Gill: 2Ki 16:14 - -- And he brought also the brasen altar which was before the Lord,.... That which Solomon made, 2Ch 4:1, which stood in the court by the door of the tabe...
And he brought also the brasen altar which was before the Lord,.... That which Solomon made, 2Ch 4:1, which stood in the court by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, Lev 1:5 from the forefront of the house; the frontispiece of the temple, which was at the eastern gate of it:
from between the altar and the house of the Lord for it seems Urijah had placed the new altar behind the old one, more out of sight; the brasen altar standing between that and the eastern gate, or entrance into the temple; wherefore he removed the brasen altar, and put his new one in the room of it:
and put it; that is, the brasen altar of Solomon:
on the north side of the altar; of the new altar, at the right hand as they went into the temple; where it was as in a corner, in greater obscurity, and the new altar more in view as they came into the temple.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 16:1-20
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 16:1-20 - --1 Ahaz's wicked reign.5 Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-pileser against them.10 Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to ...
MHCC -> 2Ki 16:10-16
MHCC: 2Ki 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 sor...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 16:10-16
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 16:10-16 - -- Though Ahaz had himself sacrificed in high places, on hills, and under every green tree (2Ki 16:4), yet God's altar had hitherto continued in its pl...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 16:14
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 16:14 - --
Soon after this Ahaz went still further, and had "the copper altar before Jehovah,"i.e., the altar of burnt-offering in the midst of the court befor...
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...

Constable: 2Ki 16:1-20 - --15. Ahaz's evil reign in Judah ch. 16
Ahaz reigned for 16 years (732-715 B.C.). Before that he w...
