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2 Kings 16:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Later, Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser. And while Ahaz was there, he saw an altar and sent a model of it back to Uriah the priest, along with the plans for building one.

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During Pekah's rule, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria marched into Israel. He captured the territories of Gilead and Galilee, including the towns of Ijon, Abel-Bethmaacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, as well as the entire territory of Naphtali. Then he took Israelites from those regions to Assyria as prisoners.

Uriah followed the plans and built an altar exactly like the one in Damascus, finishing it just before Ahaz came back.

In the temple, where only the LORD was supposed to be worshipped, Manasseh built altars for pagan gods

David then said to Solomon: The LORD showed me how his temple is to be built.

By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy.

Then Moses wrote down what the LORD had said. The next morning Moses got up early. He built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up a large stone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

I will tell Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah to serve as witnesses to this.”

You couldn't get enough sex, so you chased after Assyrians and slept with them. You still weren't satisfied,

then if they are truly sorry, describe for them the design and shape of the temple, the gates, the measurements, and how the buildings are arranged. Explain the regulations about worshipping there, then write down these things, so they can study and obey them.

Israel's kings built their palaces so close to my holy temple that only a wall separated them from me. Then these kings disgraced me with their evil ways, and in my fierce anger I destroyed them.

But because these Levites served the people of Israel when they worshipped idols, I, the LORD God, promise that the Levites will be punished. They did not stop the Israelites from sinning,

Is this any way to show respect to your parents? You ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching.

It is useless for you to worship me, when you teach rules made up by humans.”

Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him.

But that's when you must be especially careful not to ask, “How did those nations worship their gods? Shouldn't we worship the LORD in the same way?”

You were rescued from the useless way of life that you learnt from your ancestors. But you know that you were not rescued by such things as silver or gold that don't last for ever.




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