2 Kings 16:17

the laver. Compare 1 Kings 7:23-39; 2 Chronicles 28:24; 2 Chronicles 28:25.

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Albert 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...
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 allu...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were und...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The borders] RV 'the panels': i.e. of the stands of the ten lavers made for Solomon: see 1 Kings 7:27-39 . The sea ] i.e. the molten sea ( 1 Kin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And king Ahaz cut off. — The key to the right understanding of these verses is given in the last words of 2 Kings 16:18 . Ahaz spoiled the Temple...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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 i...
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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 was...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that [were] under...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen , &c. Probably that he might dispose of them, or of the br...
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 no...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which he did, either to express his contempt of them, or to render them inconvenient for the uses to which they had been designed; or to dispose of t...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Subsequent Bastardisation Of The Temple Resulting From Ahaz's Submission. The Temple Is Despoiled ( 2 Kings 16:12-18 ). What followed was unqu...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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 lust...
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 fals...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ahaz Profanes the Temple
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, those which held the water receptacles, 1 Kings 7:27-37 , and removed the laver from off them; and...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 7:23 ; 1 Kings 7:23-26 ; 1 Kings 7:27-39 ; 2 Chronicles 28:24 ; 2 Chronicles 29:19 ; 2 Chronicles 4:14 ; 2 Chronicles 4:15 ; 2 Kings...

¹⁷ And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 16:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 16:17