2 Kings 16:16
New International Version
And Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had ordered.

New Living Translation
Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz commanded him.

English Standard Version
Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

Berean Standard Bible
So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

King James Bible
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

New King James Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

New American Standard Bible
So Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.

NASB 1995
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

NASB 1977
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

Amplified Bible
Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.

Christian Standard Bible
The priest Uriah did everything King Ahaz commanded.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Uriah the priest did everything King Ahaz commanded.

American Standard Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Uriah the Priest did according to what King Akhaz commanded him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz commanded him.

Contemporary English Version
Uriah did everything Ahaz told him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him.

English Revised Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The priest Urijah did what King Ahaz had commanded.

Good News Translation
Uriah did as the king commanded.

International Standard Version
So Uriah the priest did precisely what King Ahaz ordered.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

Literal Standard Version
And Urijah the priest does according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

Majority Standard Bible
So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

New American Bible
Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

NET Bible
So Uriah the priest did exactly as King Ahaz ordered.

New Revised Standard Version
The priest Uriah did everything that King Ahaz commanded.

New Heart English Bible
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

World English Bible
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

Young's Literal Translation
And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Damascus Falls
15Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.” 16So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded. 17King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.…

Cross References
2 Kings 16:15
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, "Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king's burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance."

2 Kings 16:17
King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.


Treasury of Scripture

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

2 Kings 16:11
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.

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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2 Kings 16
1. Ahaz's wicked reign
5. Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-Pileser against them
10. Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah,
12. diverts the bronze altar to his own devotions,
17. He raids the temple
19. Hezekiah succeeds him














Verse 16. - Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded. An emphatic condemnation of the high priest, whose subserviency evidently pro-yokes the writer's indignation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Uriah
אוּרִיָּ֣ה (’ū·rî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 223: Uriah -- 'flame of Yah', the name of a Hittite and of two Israelites

the priest
הַכֹּהֵ֑ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

did
וַיַּ֖עַשׂ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

just as
כְּכֹ֥ל (kə·ḵōl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

King
הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Ahaz
אָחָֽז׃ (’ā·ḥāz)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 271: Ahaz -- 'he has grasped', two Israelites

had commanded.
צִוָּ֖ה (ṣiw·wāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order


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