◄ 2 Kings 16:12 ►
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Good News Translation
On his return from Damascus, Ahaz saw that the altar was finished,

New Revised Standard Version
When the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, went up on it,

Contemporary English Version
When Ahaz returned, he went to see the altar and to offer sacrifices on it. He walked up to the altar

New American Bible
On his arrival from Damascus, the king inspected the altar; the king approached the altar, went up

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;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;

approached

1 Kings 13:1 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.

2 Chronicles 26:16-19 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:23,25 Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. . . .

offered thereon

Numbers 18:4-7 But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join himself with you. . . .

Context
Damascus Falls
…11And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus. 12And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice;13And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace offerings, which he had offered, upon the altar.…
Cross References
2 Kings 16:11
And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:13
And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace offerings, which he had offered, upon the altar.

2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26:19
And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar of incense.

2 Kings 16:11
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