2 Kings 16:12 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-16

Though Ahaz had himself sacrificed in high places, on hills, and under every green tree (2 Kgs. 16:4), yet God's altar had hitherto continued in its place and in use, and the king's burnt-offering and his meat-offering (2 Kgs. 16:15) had been offered upon it by the priests that attended it; but here we have it taken away by wicked Ahaz, and another altar, an idolatrous one, put in the room of it?a bolder stroke than the worst of the kings had yet given to religion. We have here, I. The model... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:12

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar ,.... Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent: and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon ; either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appointments of God, and especially as his sacrifices were not offered to him, but to the gods of Damascus and Syria, 2 Chronicles 28:23 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH . WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN . EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH - PILESER AGAINST THEM . RELIGIOUS CHANGES MADE BY AHAZ . HIS DEATH . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

Steps in a downward path: the reign of Ahaz. In the opening chapters of Isaiah we have an account of the condition of the kingdom of Judah at the time that Ahaz succeeded to the throne. The prosperity which the country had enjoyed under Uzziah had been continued and increased under the righteous reign of his son Jotham. And now the grandson, Ahaz, a young man of twenty, finds the country abounding in wealth, full of silver and gold. Isaiah says there was no end of their treasure; their land... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

A people's king and priest; or, kinghood and priesthood. "In the seventeenth year of Pekah," etc. Throughout all lands, almost throughout all times, two functionaries have been at the head of the peoples, too often treading them down by oppression, and fattening on them by their greed. One of these functionaries was not, among the Jews, of Divine ordinations; for the Almighty is represented as saying, "They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not." Let... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-17

A wicked king allowed to have his way by a weak priest. The double regime , civil and ecclesiastical, which it pleased God to establish in his first Church, the Jewish, and to continue, with certain modifications, in his second Church, the Christian, seems to have been designed for the mutual advantage of both parties. Authority, in whatever hands it is placed, is always liable to be abused, to over-assert itself, to grow arbitrary, autocratic, tyrannical. Hence the necessity of checks, of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-18

Religious changes introduced into Judea by Ahaz . The new position into which Ahaz had brought himself with respect to Assyria was followed by certain religious changes, which were probably, in part at any rate, its consequence, though some of them may have been the result of his own religious (or irreligious) convictions. He had a new altar made and introduced into the temple, which at first he used for his own private sacrifices ( 2 Kings 16:10-13 ); then, that his new altar might... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-20

Religious innovations. The remaining events of the reign of Ahaz recorded in this chapter shed a strong light on the king's frivolous and arbitrary character. I. THE DAMASCUS ALTAR . 1. Ahaz at Damascus . We are now introduced to Tiglath-pileser holding court in Damascus, and Ahaz is there as one of the vassals and tributaries of the Assyrian king. He does not seem to feel the humiliation of his position, but is probably pleased to figure as part of so brilliant an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:12

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. It is not necessarily implied in these words that Ahaz, like Uzziah, usurped the priestly functions, though conceivably he may have done so, and Urijah may have stood tamely by. What the writer has it in his mind to record is that the king, on his return from Damascus, at once made use of the new' altar for his private sacrifices. If he had meant to tax Ahaz with so... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:11-12

2 Kings 16:11-12. And Urijah built an altar, &c. He complied with the king’s command against his own conscience, and against the express command of that great God to whom the king and he both were subject. The priest made it against Ahaz came from Damascus He made haste and delayed not to do it, to please the king, and advance himself. The king approached to the altar, and offered thereon Namely, a sacrifice, and that not unto God, but unto the Syrian idols, (2 Chronicles 28:23-24,)... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-17

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10-20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 16:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 16:11-12

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