2 Kings 16:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² When the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, went up on it,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² When the king came from Damascus, he looked at the altar and offered on it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Common English Bible

¹² When the king arrived from Damascus, he inspected the altar. He came close to it, then went up on it,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And when the king had arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar, and he venerated it. And he went up and immolated holocausts, with his own sacrifice.

2 Kings 16:12 Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:25

In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 28:23

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

1 Kings 13:1

A man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer incense.

2 Kings 16:11

The priest Uriah built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did the priest Uriah build it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:13

and offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured his drink offering, and dashed the blood of his offerings of well-being against the altar.

1 Kings 12:33

He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had selected on his own; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.