7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
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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.
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. …
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. …
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. Hezekiah’s age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old . Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns, was but eight, which occasioned the delay of the reformation; but Hezekiah had come to years, and so applied himself immediately to it. We may well think with what a sorrowful heart he beheld his fath…
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