2 Kings 16:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. ”

2 Kings 16:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Urijah the priest built an altar (g) according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus. (g) We see that there is no prin...
2 Kings 16:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16. Reign of Ahaz. This chapter is assigned to different sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple, though it alludes to his apostasy and his wars. The Temple recor...
2 Kings 16:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Urijah. Perhaps the Uriah of Isaiah 8:2 . His name does not occur in the list of high priests ( 1 Chronicles 6:3-15 ). Note the emphatic repetition of "Ahaz the king" and "Urijah the priest".
2 Kings 16:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Urijah the priest built an altar, &c.— It must not be denied, that the high priest carried his complaisance much too far in obeying the king's injunction, which he ought to have opposed with al...
2 Kings 16:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. No JFB commentary on these vers...
2 Kings 16:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ahaz and Assyria This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria....
2 Kings 16:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ 2 Kings 16:1-18 "For when we in our wickedness grow hard, Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our...
2 Kings 16:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

High-handed Idolatry 2 Kings 16:10-20 The calling in of the king of Assyria was fraught with disastrous consequences. “He distressed him and strengthened him not.” Well may the Apostle warn us...
2 Kings 16:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under Tiglathpileser in his time of difficulty, and this was by delibera...
2 Kings 16:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view, because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contempla...
2 Kings 16:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus ,.... Exactly according to the size, form, figure, and carved work of it, though expressly contrary to the...
2 Kings 16:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus. Ver. 11. And Urijah the priest bui...
2 Kings 16:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Urijah built an altar , &c. He complied with the king's command against his own conscience, and against the express command of that great God to whom the king and he both were subject. The...
2 Kings 16:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ (vv.1-4). Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was 20 years old when he...
2 Kings 16:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the p...
2 Kings 16:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So he complied with the king's command against his own conscience, and against the express command of that great God, to which the king and he both were subject. He made haste, and delayed not to do...
2 Kings 16:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reign Of Ahaz King Of Judah c. 732/1-716/15 BC. Co-regent from 744/43 BC. Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in Judah's history. Never before in that history had...
2 Kings 16:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 16:2 . Twenty years old was Ahab when, &c.—The Sept. MS. of the Vatican, and other MSS., give “ twenty-five ” in the c...
2 Kings 16:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 16:3 . Ahaz made his son pass through the fire. It appears from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a god by lustrations; that is, by causing him to pass between t...
2 Kings 16:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

In the seventeenth year of Pekah. A people’s king and priest, or kinghood and priesthood I. The kinghood. 1. The de-humanising force of false religion. Ahaz was an idolator. 2. The nation...
2 Kings 16:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 16:1-12 REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH . WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN . EXPEDITION OF TIGLATH - PILESER AGAINST THEM . RELIGIOUS CHANGES...
2 Kings 16:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ahaz Profanes the Temple
2 Kings 16:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:11-13 ; 2 Chronicles 26:17 ; 2 Chronicles 26:18 ; Daniel 3:7 ; Ezekiel 22:26 ; Galatians 1:10 ; Hosea 4:6 ; Hosea 5:11 ; Isaiah 8:2 ; Jeremiah 23:11 ; Malachi 2:7-9

2 Kings 16:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 16:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 16:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 16:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 16:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 16:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 16:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 16:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 16:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge