2 Kings 16:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The covered portal for use on the Sabbath that had been built inside the palace and the outer entrance for the king he removed from the house of the Lord. He did this because of the king of Assyria.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:5

the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his valets, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, it took her breath away.

2 Kings 11:5

He commanded them, “This is what you are to do: one-third of you, those who go off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king’s house

2 Kings 16:17

Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the laver from them; he removed the sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a pediment of stone.

2 Kings 16:19

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?

1 Chronicles 9:18

stationed previously in the king’s gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

Ezekiel 44:3

Only the prince, because he is a prince, may sit in it to eat food before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate and shall go out by the same way.”

Ezekiel 46:2

The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his offerings of well-being, and he shall bow down at the entryway of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until evening.