Uriah built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Therefore, by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus, the priest Uriah had completed it.
2 Kings 16:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The priest Uriah did everything King Ahaz commanded. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Urijah the priest did all this as King Ahaz commanded. American Standard Version (1901) Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. Common English Bible Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded. Catholic Public Domain Version And so Uriah, the priest, acted in accord with all that king Ahaz had instructed to him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him. |
Uriah built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Therefore, by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus, the priest Uriah had completed it.
Then King Ahaz commanded the priest Uriah, ‘Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.’
Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the water carts , and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took the basin , from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, ‘Jerusalem is where I will put my name.’
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, ‘Jerusalem is where my name will remain for ever.’
I have appointed trustworthy witnesses #– #the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.’
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.
Peter and John answered them, ‘Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;
Peter and the apostles replied, ‘We must obey God rather than people.
Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.
Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.