2 Kings 16:12

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,

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.

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.

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;

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 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tig'lath-pile'ser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uri'ah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details. ¹¹ And Uri'ah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uri'ah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus. ¹² 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, ¹³ and burned his burnt offering and his cereal offering, and poured his drink offering, and threw the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar. ¹⁴ And the bronze altar which was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar. ¹⁵ And King Ahaz commanded Uri'ah the priest, saying, "Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening cereal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his cereal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their cereal offering, and their drink offering; and throw upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." ¹⁶ Uri'ah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

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 Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

Genesis 16:8
And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."

Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.

Genesis 27:40
By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck."

Job 11:12
But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

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.