2 Kings 16:16-18

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¹⁶So Uriah the priest did exactly as^[a] King Ahaz ordered.

¹⁷King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea”^[b] down from the bronze bulls that supported it^[c] and put it on the stone pavement. ¹⁸He also removed the Sabbath awning^[d] that had been built^[e] in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway to the Lord’s temple, on account of the king of Assyria.^[f]

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2 Kings 16:16 tn Heb “according to all that.”
2 Kings 16:17 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
2 Kings 16:17 tn Heb “that [were] under it.”
2 Kings 16:18 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.
2 Kings 16:18 tn Heb “that they built.”
2 Kings 16:18 sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-Pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

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