2 Kings 16:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.”
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“When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 16:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 18:4They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.
- 1 Kings 12:33On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
- 1 Kings 13:1Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 26:16But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:25In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.
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