2 Kings 16:12

Geneva Bible

So when the King was come from Damascus, the King sawe the altar: and the King drewe neere to the altar and offered thereon.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the king came back from Damascus, he saw the altar. Then he approached the altar and ascended it.

Hebrew Names Version
When the king was come from Dammesek, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

King James Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

English Standard Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

New Century Version
When the king arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar and went near and offered sacrifices on it.

New English Translation
When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

Amplified Bible
When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and offered [sacrifices] on it,

New American Standard Bible
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,

World English Bible
When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; then the king drew near the altar and made offerings on it,

Berean Standard Bible
When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

Contemporary English Version
When Ahaz returned, he went to see the altar and to offer sacrifices on it. He walked up to the altar

Complete Jewish Bible
When the king arrived from Dammesek he saw the altar, and the king approached the altar and offered on it.

Darby Translation
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.

Easy-to-Read Version
When the king arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar. He offered sacrifices on the altar.

George Lamsa Translation
And when the king was come from Damascus, King Ahaz saw the altar; and the king drew near to the altar and went up to it,

Good News Translation
On his return from Damascus, Ahaz saw that the altar was finished,

Lexham English Bible
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it.

Literal Translation
And the king came in from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; and the king drew near to the altar and offered on it;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan ye kynge came from Damascon, and sawe the altare, he offred theron,

American Standard Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Bible in Basic English
And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so when the king was come from Damascon, he sawe the aulter: and the king went to it, and offred thereon:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

King James Version (1611)
And when the king was come from Damascus, the King saw the altar: and the King approched to the altar, and offered thereon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king saw the altar, and went up to it,

English Revised Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the king cam fro Damask, he siy the auter, and worschipide it; and he stiede, and offride brent sacrifices, and his sacrifice;

Young's Literal Translation
And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it,

Update Bible Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.

New King James Version
And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and made offerings on it.

New Living Translation
When the king returned, he inspected the altar and made offerings on it.

New Life Bible
When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar and went up to it.

New Revised Standard
When the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, went up on it,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when the king came from Damascus, then the king saw the altar, - so the king drew near unto the altar, and caused offerings to ascend thereupon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice;

Revised Standard Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, and went up on it,

THE MESSAGE
The minute the king saw the altar he approached it with reverence and arranged a service of worship with a full course of offerings: Whole-Burnt-Offerings with billows of smoke, Grain-Offerings, libations of Drink-Offerings, the sprinkling of blood from the Peace-Offerings—the works. But the old bronze Altar that signaled the presence of God he displaced from its central place and pushed it off to the side of his new altar.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And King Ahaz went vnto Damascus to meete Tiglath Pileser King of Asshur: and when King Ahaz sawe the altar that was at Damascus, he sent to Vriiah the Priest the paterne of the altar, and the facion of it, and all the workemanship thereof. ¹¹ And Vriiah the Priest made an altar in al poyntes like to that which King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Vriiah the Priest against King Ahaz came from Damascus. ¹² So when the King was come from Damascus, the King sawe the altar: and the King drewe neere to the altar and offered thereon. ¹³ And hee burnt his burnt offering, and his meate offring, and powred his drinke offring, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offrings besides the altar, ¹⁴ And set it by the brasen altar which was before the Lord, and brought it in farther before the house betweene the altar & the house of the Lord, and set it on the North side of the altar. ¹⁵ And King Ahaz commanded Vriiah the Priest, and sayde, Vpon the great altar set on fire in the morning the burnt offring, and in the euen the meate offring, and the Kings burnt offring & his meate offering, with the burnt offring of all the people of the lande, and their meate offring, and their drinke offrings: and powre thereby all the blood of the burnt offring, & all the blood of the sacrifice, and the brasen altar shalbe for me to inquire of God. ¹⁶ And Vriiah the Priest did according to all that King Ahaz had commanded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

approached: 1 Kings 13:1, 2 Chronicles 26:16-19, 2 Chronicles 28:23, 2 Chronicles 28:25

offered thereon: Numbers 18:4-7

Cross-References

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai saide to Abram, Thou doest me wrong. I haue giuen my maide into thy bosome, and she seeth that she hath conceiued, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lorde iudge betweene me and thee.

Genesis 16:8
And he saide, Hagar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flie from my dame Sarai.

Genesis 21:20
So God was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.

Genesis 27:40
And by thy sword shalt thou liue, and shalt be thy brothers seruant. But it shall come to passe, when thou shalt get the masterie, that thou shalt breake his yoke from thy necke.

Job 11:12
Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar,.... Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent:

and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon; either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appointments of God, and especially as his sacrifices were not offered to him, but to the gods of Damascus and Syria, 2 Chronicles 28:23.