OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 16:14

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The bronze altar, which was before the LORD, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the LORD’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

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Verse 14. And from. Hebrew “from between the new altar and the house of,” and so forth Bible.—Achaz had placed his altar before that of Solomon: but he afterwards removed the latter from the right-hand of the sanctuary, to a corner of the court, on the north side. Calmet.—In the midst of his distress, he despised God; sacrificed to the gods of the Syrians, as more powerful and victorious than the Lord; pillaged the temple, which he shut up during the remainder of his reign, ( Bible.) and erected altars for himself in all the corners of Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 28:24.

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