2 Kings 16:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 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 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 2 Kings 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.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:13-14

2 Kings 16:13-14. And he burned his burnt-offering, &c. For the heathen, and Ahaz, in imitation of them, offered the same sorts of offerings to their false gods which the Israelites did to the true. He brought also the brazen altar Namely, the altar of burnt-offerings made by Solomon, and placed there by God’s appointment; from before the Lord That is, from before the Lord’s house, Leviticus 1:3. From between the altar, &c. Urijah had placed Ahaz’s altar behind that of the... 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 16:14

brasen altar. Compare 1 Kings 8:64 . the altar: i.e. the new altar. 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 16:14

(14) And he brought also the brasen altar . . .—Literally, And as for the brasen altar, he brought it near (to the new one), away from the front of the house, to wit, from between the (new) altar, and the house of Jehovah; and put it at the side of the (new) altar northward. The brasen altar used to stand “before the Lord,” i.e., in the middle of the court of the priests, and in front of the Temple proper. The verse seems to imply that Urijah had pushed it forward nearer to the sanctuary, and... 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

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-18

THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ2 Kings 16:1-18"For when we in our wickedness grow hard,Oh the misery on’t! the wise gods seal our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our errors; laugh at us while we strut To our confusion."AHAZ was indifferent to these prophecies because his heart was otherwhere. It is clear from our authorities that this king had excited an unusually deep antipathy in the hearts of those later writers who judged religion not only from the earlier standpoint,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

ISAIAH AND AHAZ2 Kings 16:1-20"Expediency is man’s wisdom; doing right is God’s."- GEORGE MEREDITHISAIAH was one of those men whom God provides for the need of kingdoms. He was not only a prophet, but a statesman, a reformer, a poet, a man of invincible faith and unequalled: insight. If Ahaz had accepted his counsels and followed his moral guidance, the whole history of Judah might have been different.But the position of things was indeed disastrous. Judah was attacked from every side. On the... read more

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