2 Kings 16:10 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 16:10

And saw an altar - Rather, “The altar,” i. e. an Assyrian altar, and connected with that formal recognition of the Assyrian deities which the Ninevite monarchs appear to have required of all the nations whom they received into their empire.The fashion of the altar - Assyrian altars were not very elaborate, but they were very different from the Jewish. They were comparatively small, and scarcely suited for “whole burnt-offerings.” One type was square, about half the height of a man, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:10

2 Kings 16:10. And King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser To congratulate his victory, acknowledge his favour and help, and to beg the continuance of it. And saw an altar that was at Damascus Of an excellent structure, as he supposed, upon which the Syrians used to offer to their idols, 2 Chronicles 28:23. Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar That a pattern of it might be taken immediately. He could not stay till he should return to Jerusalem himself, but sent it before... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

Judah’s decline under Ahaz (15:27-16:20)The writer of Kings records the Assyrian attack mentioned above. Pekah’s policy had proved fatal and he was assassinated by Hoshea, a sympathizer with Assyria. Hoshea then became king and won temporary relief for Israel by submitting to Assyria’s control (27-31).Before speaking further of Hoshea, the writer returns to the time before Pekah was assassinated. Pekah’s program for the conquest of Judah had begun during the reign of Jotham, but reached its... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 16:10

Ahaz. Called Jehoahaz in Tiglath-pileser ' s great triumphal inscriptions. The first syllable of his name dropped in Scripture, as he was unworthy of it. to meet: and do him honour. Hence the solemn warnings of Isaiah 8:13 , Isaiah 8:14 , Isaiah 8:19 . fashion = likeness, or sketch. pattern, or model. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:10

RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS WHICH WERE PROBABLY REQUIRED BY ASSYRIA"And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the 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. And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. And when the king... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 16:10

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. Urijah, with culpable complaisance, acted according to his instructions ( :-). The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 16:10-18

Ahaz’s apostasy 16:10-18As Ahab had imported Baal worship from Phoenicia, so Ahaz imported a foreign altar from Damascus (cf. Amaziah of Judah’s Edomite idols, 2 Chronicles 25:14; 2 Chronicles 25:20). As Judah’s king-priest, he led the nation in worshipping at an altar different from what Yahweh had specified (Exodus 27:1-8). Furthermore, he removed the altar God had established from the place God had said it should occupy in the temple courtyard (Exodus 40:6; Exodus 40:29)."Readers could... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 16:1-20

Ahaz and AssyriaThis chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria.3. He walked, etc.] see 2 Chronicles 28:2 where he is described as making images for Baalim. Made his son.. fire] Children were sometimes actually sacrificed and burnt (see 2 Kings 17:31; 2 Kings 3:27), and the same thing may be meant here, but some think that the rite here described was a kind of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 16:10

(10) Ahaz went to Damascus, to meet Tiglath-pileser.—The great king appears to have held his court there after the capture of the city, and to have summoned the vassal princes of Palestine thither to do him homage in person before his departure. (See the Note on 2 Kings 16:8.)And saw an altar.—Rather, and he saw the altar, namely, that of the principal Temple. Upon the account which follows Prof. Robertson Smith well remarks that the frivolous character of Ahaz “was so-little capable of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Kings 16:1-20

Lowering the Sea 2 Kings 16:17 'King Ahaz... took down the sea.' The reference is to the enormous and superb laver which was situate in the temple, and was intended for the cleansing of the priests. I. We have not lowered the sea! No. But we have Frustrated the Divine Plan. That plan we may not have spoiled utterly, thanks to restraining grace, but we have frustrated it in detail. True, Ahaz did not frustrate God's plan as a whole. He 'took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were... read more