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2 Kings 16:11

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Urijah built an altar exactly like the model King Ahaz sent from Damascus. He finished it before Ahaz returned home from Damascus.

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Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria. He saw an altar there in Damascus. So King Ahaz sent the priest Urijah a model of the altar and a set of detailed plans.

When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar. The king approached the altar and went up to it.

But he moved the bronze altar dedicated to the Lord. It had been in front of the temple between his altar and the Lord’s temple. Ahaz put it on the north side of his altar.

The priest Urijah did what King Ahaz had commanded.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

Manasseh had an idol of Asherah made. Then he set it up in the temple, where the Lord had said to David and his son Solomon, “I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “My name will be in Jerusalem forever.”

I will have these dependable witnesses testify: the priest Uriah and Zechariah (son of Jeberechiah).”

The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my temple I’ve found them doing evil,” declares the Lord.

Your priests violate my teachings and dishonor my holy things. They don’t distinguish between what is holy and what is unholy. They don’t teach the difference between what is clean and what is unclean. They ignore the days to worship me. So I am dishonored among the people.

As soon as they heard the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps with all other kinds of instruments, all the people from every province, nation, and language bowed down and worshiped the gold statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

I will destroy my people because they are ignorant. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be my priests. You have forgotten the teachings of your God, so I will forget your children.

Ephraim is oppressed—crushed by punishment, because its people are determined to chase idols.

Am I saying this now to win the approval of people or God? Am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ’s servant.




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