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2 Kings 16:11

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Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest worked until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

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Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria and saw an altar that was in Damascus. King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a pattern of the altar and model of it, according to the manner of its construction.

When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, the king approached the altar and made offerings on it.

And the bronze altar that was before the Lord he moved from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord. He put it on the north side of the new altar.

So Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded.

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

He put a carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord where the Lord said, “In Jerusalem My name will be perpetual.”

I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberekiah.

For both prophet and priest are profane; indeed, in My house I have found their wickedness, says the Lord.

Her priests have violated My law and have profaned My holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and profane, nor have they shown the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he eagerly followed after vanity.

For am I now seeking the approval of men or of God? Or am I trying to please men? For if I were still trying to please men, I would not be the servant of Christ.




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