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2 Kings 16:16

Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded him to do.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahaz;   Altar;   Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Temple;   Urijah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altar of Burnt-Offering, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Damascus;   Nahum;   Priest;   Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tiglath-Pileser Iii.;   Urijah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   High Priest;   Tiglath Pileser;   Uriah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Damascus;   Hezekiah;   High Priest;   King, Kingship;   Uriah;   Urijah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Alliance;   Damascus;   Temple;   Uriah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   Uriah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Uri'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;   Priest, High;   Temple;   Uriah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Uriah, Urijah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The priest Uriah did everything King Ahaz commanded.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus did Uriyahu the Kohen, according to all that king Achaz commanded.
King James Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
English Standard Version
Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.
New Century Version
So Uriah the priest did everything as King Ahaz commanded him.
New English Translation
So Uriah the priest did exactly as King Ahaz ordered.
Amplified Bible
Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.
New American Standard Bible
So Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.
World English Bible
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Vriiah the Priest did according to all that King Ahaz had commanded.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Berean Standard Bible
So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.
Contemporary English Version
Uriah did everything Ahaz told him.
Complete Jewish Bible
Uriyah the cohen acted in accordance with everything King Achaz ordered.
Darby Translation
And Urijah the priest did according to all that king Ahaz had commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded him.
Good News Translation
Uriah did as the king commanded.
Lexham English Bible
So Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Literal Translation
And Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vrias the prest dyd all acordinge as Achas the kynge commaunded him.
American Standard Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Bible in Basic English
So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Uria the priest did according to al thinges as king Ahaz commaunded him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
King James Version (1611)
Thus did Uriiah the Priest, according to all that king Ahaz commaunded.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz commanded him.
English Revised Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Vrie, the preest, dide bi alle thingis whiche kyng Achaz hadde comaundid to hym.
Young's Literal Translation
And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Update Bible Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
New King James Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
New Living Translation
Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz commanded him.
New Life Bible
Urijah the religious leader did all that King Ahaz told him.
New Revised Standard
The priest Uriah did everything that King Ahaz commanded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him.
Revised Standard Version
Uri'ah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.
THE MESSAGE
The priest Uriah followed King Ahaz's orders to the letter.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

Contextual Overview

10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria. Ahaz saw the altar at Damascus. He sent a model and pattern of this altar to Uriah the priest. 11 Then Uriah the priest built an altar just like the model King Ahaz had sent him from Damascus. Uriah the priest built the altar this way before King Ahaz came back from Damascus. 12 When the king arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar. He offered sacrifices on the altar. 13 Ahaz burned his burnt offerings and grain offerings on it. He poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings on this altar. 14 Ahaz took the bronze altar that was before the Lord from the front of the Temple. This bronze altar was between Ahaz's altar and the Temple of the Lord . Ahaz put the bronze altar on the north side of his own altar. 15 He commanded Uriah the priest, "Use the large altar to burn the morning burnt offerings, the evening grain offerings, and the drink offerings from all the people of this country. Sprinkle all the blood from the burnt offering and other sacrifices on the large altar. But I will use the bronze altar to get answers from God." 16 Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded him to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 16:11, Acts 4:19, Acts 5:29, 1 Thessalonians 2:4, Jude 1:11

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded. Not only concerning the structure of the altar, but the sacrifices to be offered on it; like king like priest, both apostates and idolaters.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The writer condemns the obsequiousness of Urijah, whose conduct was the more inexcusable after the noble example of his predecessor Azariah 2 Chronicles 26:17-20.


 
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