2 Chronicles 28:24 BSB

2 Chronicles 28:24

Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

BSB

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ASV

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Jehovah; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

KJV

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God,.... And converted them to his own use, sold them, or melted the gold and silver, of which they were, and made money of them, his treasures being exhausted: and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord: that the people might not come and worship there, but on the high places he made: and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem; that the priests might sacrifice there, and not in the temple.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was worse than the worst of the kings before him had done. (2.) He confronted the altar of God, for he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem; so that, as the prophet speaks, they were like heaps in the furrows of the fields, Hos. xii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Shut up the doors - He caused the Divine worship to be totally suspended; and they continued shut till the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah, one of whose first acts was to reopen them, and thus to restore the Divine worship, 2Ch 29:3.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֶּאֱסֹ֨ף	vai.ye.'e.Sof	and he gathered	H622 →
אָחָ֜ז	'a.Chaz	Ahaz	H271 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כְּלֵ֣י	ke.Lei	[the] utensils of	H3627 →
בֵית־	veit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֗ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
וַיְקַצֵּץ֙	vay.ka.Tzetz	and he cut up	H7112 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כְּלֵ֣י	ke.Lei	[the] utensils of	H3627 →
בֵית־	veit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
וַיִּסְגֹּ֖ר	vai.yis.Gor	and he closed	H5462 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דַּלְת֣וֹת	dal.Tot	[the] doors of	H1817 →
בֵּית־	beit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיַּ֨עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he made	H6213 →
ל֧וֹ	lo	for himself
מִזְבְּח֛וֹת	miz.be.Chot	altars	H4196 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	at every	H3605 →
פִּנָּ֖ה	pi.Nah	corner	H6438 →
בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃	bi.ru.sha.Lim	in Jerusalem	H3389 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
leads to
- Hosea 8:11
  Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
- Hosea 6:8
  Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
- Hosea 4:15
  Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- Hosea 9:15
  All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are…
Through
2 Chronicles 29:7
They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
leads to
- Leviticus 24:2–8
  “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
Through
2 Chronicles 30:14
They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 29:16
  So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then…
- 2 Samuel 15:23
  Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16
  King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron…

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