24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and (A)cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself (B)altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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They also (A)shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.

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For he rebuilt the high places (A)that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made (B)Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (C)“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” And he built altars for all the host of heaven in (D)the two courts of the house of the Lord.

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14 They set to work and removed (A)the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away (B)and threw into the brook Kidron.

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17 And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down (A)the sea[a] from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal. 18 And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 16:17 Compare 1 Kings 7:23

23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: (A)‘To the unknown god.’ (B)What therefore you worship (C)as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

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Paul in Athens

16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was (A)provoked within him as he saw that the city was (B)full of idols.

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11 (A)If there is iniquity in Gilead,
    they shall surely come to nothing:
(B)in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
    (C)their altars also are like stone heaps
    (D)on the furrows of the field.

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28 But (A)where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, (B)if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble;
for (C)as many as your cities
    are your gods, O Judah.

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Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he (A)opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

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13 (A)And the pillars (B)of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and (C)the stands and (D)the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 (E)And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, 15 the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 16 As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, (F)the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. 17 (G)The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,[a] and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:17 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

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