2 Kings 16:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 16:11 : 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 : 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 : 29 Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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  • 2 Kgs 16:7-15
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    90%

    7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

    8And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.

    9And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

    10¶ And 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.

    13And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

    14And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

    15And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire [by].

  • 2 Kgs 16:1-5
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    76%

    1¶ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

    2Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

    5¶ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].

  • 2 Kgs 16:17-20
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    75%

    17¶ 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.

    18And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

    19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chr 28:21-26
    6 verses
    72%

    21For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

    22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.

    23For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

    24And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

    25And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

    26Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1¶ Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

    2For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

  • Jer 26:20-21
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    71%

    20And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

    21And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

  • 2 Chr 28:16
    71%

    16¶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

  • 2 Chr 26:16-18
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    70%

    16¶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

    17And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:

    18And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
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    12And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

  • 2 Chr 29:19
    70%

    19Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

  • 2 Chr 35:16
    70%

    16So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

  • 1 Chr 6:10-11
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    69%

    10And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it is] that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

    11And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

  • Isa 7:10
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    10¶ Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

  • 2 Chr 31:2
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    2And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

  • Jer 26:23
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    23And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 34:20
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    20And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

  • 2 Chr 31:11
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    11¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared [them],

  • 2 Kgs 15:6
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    6And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:19
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    19For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12
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    12And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Sam 11:16
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    16And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were].