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2 Kings 16:17-19
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 16:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 King Ahaz cut off the side panels and he removed the basins from the moveable carts, he removed the sea from the bronze oxen underneath it and he placed it on a stone base. 18 He took away the Sabbath canopy[a] that had been built on the temple and the royal entrance outside the temple of the Lord on account of the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the deeds of Ahaz, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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- 2 Kings 16:18 Took away the Sabbath canopy: as a vassal to Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, King Ahaz made several religious concessions, such as building a new altar, to please him. Ahaz’s political mistake allowed the Assyrian king to take God’s place as leader in Judah.
