2 Kings 16:12

Bible in Basic English

And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the king came back from Damascus, he saw the altar. Then he approached the altar and ascended it.

Hebrew Names Version
When the king was come from Dammesek, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

King James Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

English Standard Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

New Century Version
When the king arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar and went near and offered sacrifices on it.

New English Translation
When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

Amplified Bible
When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and offered [sacrifices] on it,

New American Standard Bible
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,

World English Bible
When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So when the King was come from Damascus, the King sawe the altar: and the King drewe neere to the altar and offered thereon.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; then the king drew near the altar and made offerings on it,

Berean Standard Bible
When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.

Contemporary English Version
When Ahaz returned, he went to see the altar and to offer sacrifices on it. He walked up to the altar

Complete Jewish Bible
When the king arrived from Dammesek he saw the altar, and the king approached the altar and offered on it.

Darby Translation
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.

Easy-to-Read Version
When the king arrived from Damascus, he saw the altar. He offered sacrifices on the altar.

George Lamsa Translation
And when the king was come from Damascus, King Ahaz saw the altar; and the king drew near to the altar and went up to it,

Good News Translation
On his return from Damascus, Ahaz saw that the altar was finished,

Lexham English Bible
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it.

Literal Translation
And the king came in from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; and the king drew near to the altar and offered on it;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan ye kynge came from Damascon, and sawe the altare, he offred theron,

American Standard Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so when the king was come from Damascon, he sawe the aulter: and the king went to it, and offred thereon:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

King James Version (1611)
And when the king was come from Damascus, the King saw the altar: and the King approched to the altar, and offered thereon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king saw the altar, and went up to it,

English Revised Version
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the king cam fro Damask, he siy the auter, and worschipide it; and he stiede, and offride brent sacrifices, and his sacrifice;

Young's Literal Translation
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,

Update Bible Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.

New King James Version
And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and made offerings on it.

New Living Translation
When the king returned, he inspected the altar and made offerings on it.

New Life Bible
When the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar and went up to it.

New Revised Standard
When the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, went up on it,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when the king came from Damascus, then the king saw the altar, - so the king drew near unto the altar, and caused offerings to ascend thereupon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice;

Revised Standard Version
And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, and went up on it,

THE MESSAGE
The minute the king saw the altar he approached it with reverence and arranged a service of worship with a full course of offerings: Whole-Burnt-Offerings with billows of smoke, Grain-Offerings, libations of Drink-Offerings, the sprinkling of blood from the Peace-Offerings—the works. But the old bronze Altar that signaled the presence of God he displaced from its central place and pushed it off to the side of his new altar.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure. ¹¹ And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus. ¹² And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it. ¹³ He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar. ¹⁴ And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar. ¹⁵ And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord. ¹⁶ So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

approached: 1 Kings 13:1, 2 Chronicles 26:16-19, 2 Chronicles 28:23, 2 Chronicles 28:25

offered thereon: Numbers 18:4-7

Cross-References

Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

Genesis 27:40
By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

Job 11:12
And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar,.... Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent:

and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon; either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appointments of God, and especially as his sacrifices were not offered to him, but to the gods of Damascus and Syria, 2 Chronicles 28:23.