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2 Kings 16 📜 📕 ↷
Idolatry of Ahaz
10 And king Achaz went forth to meet Theglathphalasar the king of the Assyrians into Damascus, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias the Priest a pattern of it, and a similitude according to all the work thereof,📜💬📚
11 And Urias the Priest built an altar, according to all things, which king Achaz had commanded, from Damascus, so did the Priest Urias, whilst king Achaz came from Damascus.📜💬📚
12 And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and immolated holocausts, and his sacrifice,📜💬📚
13 & offered libaments, & poured the blood of the pacifics, which he had offered upon the altar.📜💬📚
14 Moreover the altar of brass that was before our Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of our Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar toward the North.📜💬📚
15 King Achaz also commanded Urias the Priest, saying: Upon the greater altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and the king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole people of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libaments: and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim thou shalt pour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be prepared ready at my pleasure.📜💬📚
16 Urias therefore the Priest did according to all things, which king Achaz had commanded him.📜💬📚
17 And king Achaz took the engraven feet, and the lavatory that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the oxen of brass, that held it up, and put it upon the pavement paved with stone.📜💬📚
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