2 Kings 16:12
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New International Version (©2011)
When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the king returned, he inspected the altar and made offerings on it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When the king came back from Damascus, he saw the altar. Then he approached the altar and ascended it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When the king returned from Damascus, as soon as he saw the altar, he approached it and offered sacrifices on it.

NET Bible (©2006)
When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar. The king approached the altar and went up to it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

American King James Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

American Standard Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice.

Darby Bible Translation
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.

English Revised Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.

World English Bible
When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:10-16 God's altar had hitherto been kept in its place, and in use; but Ahaz put another in the room of it. The natural regard of the mind of man to some sort of religion, is not easily extinguished; but except it be regulated by the word, and by the Spirit of God, it produces absurd superstitions, or detestable idolatries. Or, at best, it quiets the sinner's conscience with unmeaning ceremonies. Infidels have often been remarkable for believing ridiculous falsehoods.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. It is not necessarily implied in these words that Ahaz, like Uzziah, usurped the priestly functions, though conceivably he may have done so, and Urijah may have stood tamely by. What the writer has it in his mind to record is that the king, on his return from Damascus, at once made use of the new' altar for his private sacrifices. If he had meant to tax Ahaz with so great a sin as that which brought the curse of leprosy upon Uzziah, he would almost certainly have made his meaning clearer.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar,.... Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent:

and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon; either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appointments of God, and especially as his sacrifices were not offered to him, but to the gods of Damascus and Syria, 2 Chronicles 28:23.

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Damascus Falls
10And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser 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 pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 11And 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. 12And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. …

2 Kings 16:11 So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned.
2 Kings 16:13 He offered up his burnt offering and grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splashed the blood of his fellowship offerings against the altar.
2 Chronicles 26:16 But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:19 Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the LORD's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.