2 Kings 16:17

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands and removed the basins from them. He also took down the sea from the bronze oxen that supported it and placed it on a stone pavement.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, removed the lavers from them, and took down the sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And kynge Achas brake downe the seates, and put a waye the ketell from aboue, and toke the lauer from the brasen bullockes that were there vnder, and set it vpon ye pauement of stone.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And King Ahaz brake the borders of the bases, and tooke the caldrons from off them, and tooke downe the sea from the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And king Ahaz brake the sydes of the botomes, and toke the lauer from of them, & toke downe the lauatorie from of the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And king Ahaz cutteth off the borders of the bases, and turneth aside from off them the laver, and the sea he hath taken down from off the brazen oxen that `are' under it, and putteth it on a pavement of stones.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took“The Sea” down from the bronze bulls that supported it and put it on the stone pavement.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 7:23-39 : 23 Hiram made a large cast basin, called 'The Sea', which was ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. 24 Below the rim of the basin, there were decorative gourds encircling it, ten per cubit, entirely cast in one piece with the basin. 25 The basin rested on twelve bronze oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the basin sat on their backs, and all their hind parts were turned inward. 26 The thickness of the basin was a handbreadth, and its rim was fashioned like the rim of a cup, resembling a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths. 27 He made ten bronze stands, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. 28 This is how the stands were constructed: they had panels enclosed within frames. 29 On the panels between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work. 30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with axles and supports. Its wash basin rested on cast supports attached with wreaths on each side. 31 The opening of the stand, from inside the capital upwards, was one cubit. Its opening was round, shaped like a pedestal, measuring a cubit and a half. Around its opening were carvings, and its frames were square, not circular. 32 The four wheels were under the frames, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. Each wheel was one and a half cubits high. 33 The workmanship of the wheels was like that of a chariot wheel; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast metal. 34 Each stand had four supports at the four corners of its base. These supports were part of the stand itself. 35 At the top of the stand was a circular band half a cubit high, and the top of the stand had its supports and frames crafted as part of it. 36 He adorned the panels of the stand and its frames with engravings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees according to the space on each, with wreaths surrounding them. 37 This was how he made the ten stands: all of them were cast in the same mold, with the same size and shape. 38 Hiram made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits. One basin was placed on each of the ten stands. 39 He placed five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. The Sea he placed on the southeast side of the temple.
  • 2 Kgs 25:13-16 : 13 The Chaldeans broke apart the bronze pillars of the house of the LORD, the stands, and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 They took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze utensils used in the temple service. 15 The captain of the guard also took the firepans and the sprinkling bowls—everything that was made of gold and silver. 16 The weight of the two pillars, the bronze sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, could not be weighed because of their immense weight.
  • 2 Chr 4:14-15 : 14 He also made the stands, and he made the basins to place upon the stands. 15 He made the large basin, called the 'Sea,' and the twelve oxen that were placed beneath it.
  • 2 Chr 28:24 : 24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 29:19 : 19 Moreover, all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and they are now before the altar of the LORD.
  • Jer 52:20 : 20 The weight of the two bronze pillars, the bronze sea, the twelve bronze oxen underneath it, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, was beyond calculation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 16:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18Then he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and the royal entrance to the outer court, to accommodate the king of Assyria.

    19The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, and all that he did, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 16:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14As for the bronze altar that was before the Lord, he brought it from the front of the temple—from between his new altar and the temple of the Lord—and placed it on the north side of his new altar.

    15King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, 'On the large altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, the burnt offerings of all the people of the land, their grain offerings, and their drink offerings. Then, you shall sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offerings and the blood of the sacrifices. But the bronze altar will be for my personal use for inquiry.'

    16Uriah the priest did everything just as King Ahaz had commanded.

  • 2 Chr 28:24
    76%

    24Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 29:19
    75%

    19Moreover, all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and they are now before the altar of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 4:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14He also made the stands, and he made the basins to place upon the stands.

    15He made the large basin, called the 'Sea,' and the twelve oxen that were placed beneath it.

  • 2 Kgs 16:7-12
    6 verses
    74%

    7Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, saying, 'I am your servant and your son. Come and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and the king of Israel, who are attacking me.'

    8Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and the treasuries of the royal palace and sent them as a gift to the king of Assyria.

    9The king of Assyria complied with him, marched up to Damascus, seized it, exiled its people to Kir, and killed Rezin.

    10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria. While he was there, he saw an altar and sent a detailed plan and model of the altar to Uriah the priest.

    11Uriah the priest constructed the altar following all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. By the time the king returned from Damascus, the altar was ready.

    12When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar, approached it, and offered sacrifices on it.

  • 2 Chr 28:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21Ahaz took some of the treasures from the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

    22During his time of distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 18:16
    74%

    16At that time, Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

  • 1 Kgs 7:27-30
    4 verses
    74%

    27He made ten bronze stands, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

    28This is how the stands were constructed: they had panels enclosed within frames.

    29On the panels between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

    30Each stand had four bronze wheels with axles and supports. Its wash basin rested on cast supports attached with wreaths on each side.

  • 2 Kgs 25:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13The Chaldeans broke apart the bronze pillars of the house of the LORD, the stands, and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

    14They took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze utensils used in the temple service.

  • 1 Kgs 7:43-44
    2 verses
    73%

    43the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands,

    44the Sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it,

  • Jer 52:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17The Chaldeans broke apart the bronze pillars of the house of the LORD, as well as the stands and the bronze sea in the temple, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

    18They also took the pots, shovels, snuffers, bowls, dishes, and every bronze article used in the temple service.

  • Exod 35:16
    73%

    16The altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12
    72%

    12The king tore down the altars that were on the roof of Ahaz's upper chamber, the ones the kings of Judah had made. He also destroyed the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. He removed them from there, ground them to dust, and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

  • Exod 30:28
    72%

    28You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin with its base.

  • Exod 31:9
    72%

    9the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, the basin with its stand,

  • 2 Kgs 25:16
    71%

    16The weight of the two pillars, the bronze sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, could not be weighed because of their immense weight.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    71%

    15He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

  • 1 Kgs 7:37-40
    4 verses
    71%

    37This was how he made the ten stands: all of them were cast in the same mold, with the same size and shape.

    38Hiram made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits. One basin was placed on each of the ten stands.

    39He placed five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. The Sea he placed on the southeast side of the temple.

    40Hiram also made the basins, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Hiram completed all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 4:2
    70%

    2He made the cast metal basin, ten cubits from rim to rim, circular all around and five cubits high; a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    70%

    3He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 28:2
    70%

    2Instead, he followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even made cast images for the Baals.

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
    70%

    5Then King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz but could not overpower him.

  • Jer 52:20
    70%

    20The weight of the two bronze pillars, the bronze sea, the twelve bronze oxen underneath it, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, was beyond calculation.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4
    70%

    4He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

  • 1 Kgs 7:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23Hiram made a large cast basin, called 'The Sea', which was ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.

    24Below the rim of the basin, there were decorative gourds encircling it, ten per cubit, entirely cast in one piece with the basin.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12Hasn't the same Hezekiah removed his high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?

  • 2 Chr 28:19
    70%

    19The LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been unfaithful to the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 18:8
    70%

    8From Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a great amount of bronze. With it, Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and other bronze articles.

  • 2 Chr 4:6
    70%

    6He made ten basins and placed five on the right and five on the left for washing. They were used to rinse what was used for burnt offerings. The large sea basin was used by the priests for washing.