2 Kings 16:17 “King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed th…”

2 Kings 16:17

King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

Geneva Bible 1599

And King Ahaz brake the borders of the bases, and tooke the caldrons from off them, and tooke downe the sea from the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones.

Darby Translation

And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the lavers from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a stone pavement.

Young's Literal Translation

And king Ahaz cutteth off the borders of the bases, and turneth aside from off them the laver, and the sea he hath taken down from off the brazen oxen that [are] under it, and putteth it on a pavement of stones.

Bible in Basic English

And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

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Cross references

“A. M. 3265. B.C. 739. cut off”

2 Chronicles 28:24 2 Chronicles 29:19

2 Chronicles 28:24 · BSB

Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:19 · BSB

Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz in his unfaithfulness cast aside during his reign. They are now in front of the altar of the LORD.”

“borders”

1 Kings 7:23 1 Kings 7:27–39 2 Chronicles 4:14

1 Kings 7:23 · BSB

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

1 Kings 7:27–39 · BSB

In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4:14 · BSB

the stands; the basins on the stands;

“sea”

2 Kings 25:13–16 Jeremiah 52:20 1 Kings 7:23–26 2 Chronicles 4:15

2 Kings 25:13–16 · BSB

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:20 · BSB

As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

1 Kings 7:23–26 · BSB

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

2 Chronicles 4:15 · BSB

the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

18And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

Read 2 Kings 16