2nd Kings Chapter 16 verse 12 Holy Bible
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.
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And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.
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And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.
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And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
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And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.
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When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.
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And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. It is not necessarily implied in these words that Ahaz, like Uzziah, usurped the priestly functions, though conceivably he may have done so, and Urijah may have stood tamely by. What the writer has it in his mind to record is that the king, on his return from Damascus, at once made use of the new' altar for his private sacrifices. If he had meant to tax Ahaz with so great a sin as that which brought the curse of leprosy upon Uzziah, he would almost certainly have made his meaning clearer.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) The king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.--So the Targum renders. But all the other versions: "The king approached to the altar, and went up thereon." (Comp. 1Kings 12:32-33.) It thus appears that Ahaz, like Uzziah, personally exercised the priestly function of sacrifice.