2 Kings 16:12

12 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

2 Kings 16:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 16:12

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar
Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent:

and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon;
either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appointments of God, and especially as his sacrifices were not offered to him, but to the gods of Damascus and Syria, ( 2 Chronicles 28:23 ) .

2 Kings 16:12 In-Context

10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the 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 of it.

11 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

12 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

13 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, on the altar.

14 The brazen altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.