2 Könige 16:17

Schlachter Bibel

Der König Ahas ließ auch die Seitenfelder an den Ständern herausbrechen und den Kessel oben hinwegtun; und das Meer nahm er von den ehernen Rindern, die darunter waren, herab und setzte es auf ein steinernes Pflaster.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Und der König Ahas brach ab die Seiten an den Gestühlen und tat die Kessel oben davon; und das Meer tat er von den Ehernen Ochsen, die darunter waren, und setzte es auf steinernes Pflaster.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3265, bc 739

cut off: 2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 29:19

borders: 1 Kings 7:23, 1 Kings 7:27-39, 2 Chronicles 4:14

sea: 2 Kings 25:13-16, 1 Kings 7:23-26, 2 Chronicles 4:15, Jeremiah 52:20

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 16:8 - the silver 2 Chronicles 29:7 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them,.... In the temple there were ten lavers for the priests to wash in, which are here meant, the singular being put for the plural; and these had bases of brass, on which they were set; and about these bases were borders, which had on them figures of various creatures, lions, oxen, and cherubim; and these Ahaz cut off, either to deface them, in contempt of them, or to convert the brass to other uses, as he might also the bases themselves, since he removed the lavers from off of them, see 1 Kings 7:27

and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen [that were] under it; the molten sea Solomon made, which he set upon twelve oxen made of brass; this Ahaz took down from thence, either to abate its magnificence, and render it despicable, or for the sake of the brass, of which the oxen were made, see 1 Kings 7:23

and put it upon a pavement of stones; not upon the floor of the temple, for that was of wood, fir, or cedar, but on rows of stones, placed instead of bases for it to stand upon.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references. The acts recorded here, were probably not mere wanton acts of mutilation, but steps in the conversion of these sacred objects to other uses, as to the ornamentation of a palace or of an idol temple. The bases, the oxen, and the sea were not destroyed - they remained at Jerusalem until its final capture Jeremiah 52:17, Jeremiah 52:20. Probably they were restored to their original uses by Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 29:19.

A pavement of stones - Probably a pavement made expressly, for the stones of the court seem to have been covered with a planking of cedar 1Ki 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12.