“ Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. ”
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 .
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...
did Urijah. Unlike Azariah in 2 Chronicles 26:17 ; 2 Chronicles 26:18 .
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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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...
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...
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Thus did Urijah the priest , &c. Having once begun to defile his conscience, he could not now make an honourable retreat, and therefore proceeds to execute all the king's commands.
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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...
Having once began to debauch his conscience, he could not now make an honourable retreat; and therefore proceeds to execute all the king's commands.
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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 16:3 . 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...
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...
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Ahaz Profanes the Temple
1 Thessalonians 2:4 ; 2 Kings 16:11 ; Acts 4:19 ; Acts 5:29 ; Jude 1:11