2 Kings 16:16

16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

2 Kings 16:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 16:16

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz
commanded.
] Not only concerning the structure of the altar, but the sacrifices to be offered on it; like king like priest, both apostates and idolaters.

2 Kings 16:16 In-Context

14 And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

16 So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

17 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.

18 *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.