He told Uriah the priest, “Use the new altar for the morning sacrifices of burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt offerings of all the people, as well as their grain offerings and liquid offerings. Sprinkle the blood from all the burnt offerings and sacrifices on the new altar. The bronze altar will be for my personal use only.”
Commentaries
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The bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by—most modern commentators translate this as: “As for the bronze altar, it will be for me to in…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
The great altar—that is, as we say, “the high altar,” the new Syrian one. So the high priest is sometimes called “the gre…
John Gill
JohnGill
And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying
Who was not to be commanded by the king in matters of worship, but…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
God's altar had until then been kept in its place and in use; but Ahaz put another to replace it. The natural human inclination toward some form of…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes