2 Kings 16:11

Ahaz Urijah Damascus

⁹ So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

¹⁰ Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.

¹² When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

¹³ He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
KJV: 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.
WEB: Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
ASV: And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
DARBY: And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Urijah the priest made [it], against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
BLB: And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; so did Urijah the priest until came back King Ahaz from Damascus.

ÅB: Og presten Uria bygget alteret; aldeles etter det bilde som kong Ahas hadde sendt fra Damaskus, gjorde presten Uria alteret, innen kong Ahas kom tilbake fra Damaskus.
OTB: Så bygde Uria, presten, alteret; i samsvar med alt det kong Akas hadde sendt fra Damaskus, slik laget Uria, presten, det før kongen kom fra Damaskus.
B1930: Og presten Uria bygget alteret; aldeles efter det billede som kong Akas hadde sendt fra Damaskus, gjorde presten Uria alteret, innen kong Akas kom tilbake fra Damaskus.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
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1 Kings 21:11–13
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
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Malachi 2:7–9
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
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Daniel 3:7
Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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2 Chronicles 26:17–18
Then Azariah the priest, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.
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Isaiah 8:2
And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
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Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
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