The priest Uriah built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, just so did the priest Uriah build it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:16 - New Revised Standard Version The priest Uriah did everything that 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. |
The priest Uriah built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, just so did the priest Uriah build it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
King Ahaz commanded the priest Uriah, saying, “Upon the great altar offer the morning burnt offering, and the evening grain offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offering; then dash against it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”
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.
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”
and have it attested for me by reliable witnesses, the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah's rebellion.