2 Kings 16:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice.

2 Kings 16:12 Cross References

1 Kings 12:33

And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.

1 Kings 13:1

And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

2 Kings 16:11

And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:13

And he burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

2 Chronicles 28:23

For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:25

And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.