2 Kings 16:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ [To keep Assyria's king from getting them] King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases [of the ten lavers] and removed the laver from each of them; and he took down the Sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it upon stone supports.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ King Ahaz cut off the side panels from the stands and removed the basins from them. He took the Sea down from the bronze bulls that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Then king Ahaz took away the engraved bases, and the basin that was upon them. And he took down the sea from the bronze oxen, which were holding it up. And he positioned it upon a layer of pavement stone.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

2 Kings 16:17 Cross References

2 Kings 16:16

In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2 Kings 16:18

Against him came up Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute.

2 Chronicles 28:24

And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

2 Chronicles 29:19

4 And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

Jeremiah 52:20

8 This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive : in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.