2 Kings 16:12

16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and ¹  saw the altar, he approached it ²  and offered a sacrifice on it. ³ 

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ⁴  altar.

2 Kings 16:10

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. ⁵  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. ⁶ 

2 Kings 23:15

23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel ⁷  at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. ⁸  He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. ⁹ 

2 Kings 16:13

16:13 He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.

2 Kings 12:9

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of ¹⁰  the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ¹¹  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ¹² 

2 Kings 18:22

18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

2 Kings 23:16-17

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; ¹³  he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah ¹⁴  turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this. ¹⁵  23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ¹⁶  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

2 Kings 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ¹⁷  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ¹⁸ 

[16:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and the king.”

[16:12]  ² tn Heb “the altar.”

[16:12]  ³ tn Or “ascended it.”

[16:14]  ⁴ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

[16:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “in Damascus.”

[16:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

[23:15]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[23:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.

[23:15]  ¹² tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[12:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

[16:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

[16:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

[23:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

[23:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

[23:16]  ²¹ tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

[23:17]  ²² tn Heb “man of God.”

[16:15]  ²⁵ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.