OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 16:17

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King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

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Verse 17. Stone, all out of avarice, ( Bible.) and contempt of the Lord, who chastized him. Menochius.—He took away the plates of brass, and so forth from the doors, ( Calmet.) which Ezechias was forced to replace, ( Bible.) afterwards to take down for the Assyrians. Calmet. 18:16. Calmet.

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