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2 Kings 16:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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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.

When Ahaz returned, he went to see the altar and to offer sacrifices on it. He walked up to the altar

After that, he had the bronze altar moved aside, so his new altar would be right in front of the LORD's temple.

Uriah did everything Ahaz told him.

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

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

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

The LORD told me to say: You prophets and priests think so little of me, the LORD, that you even sin in my own temple!

The priests of Israel ignore my Law! Not only do they refuse to respect any of my sacred things, but they don't even teach the difference between what is sacred and what is ordinary, or between what is clean and what is unclean. They treat my Sabbath like any other day, and so my own people no longer honour me.

As soon as the people heard the music, they bowed down and worshipped the gold statue that the king had set up.

You priests have rejected me, and my people are destroyed by refusing to obey. Now I'll reject you and forget your children, because you have forgotten my Law.

Israel was brutally crushed. They got what they deserved for worshipping useless idols.

I am not trying to please people. I want to please God. Do you think I am trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.




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