Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Cut in pieces
Shut up
General references
Bible References
Cut in pieces
2 Kings 16:17
Later, King Ahaz ordered the side panels removed from the bases, along with the washing bowls that had stood on top of the bases. He also removed the large bowl that was called the Sea from on top of the bronze bulls that supported it, and put it on a stone base.
2 Kings 25:13
The Chaldeans also broke into pieces and carried back to Babylon the bronze pillars that stood in the LORD's Temple, along with the stands and the bronze sea that used to be in the LORD's Temple.
Shut up
2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first month of the first year of his reign he repaired and reopened the doors of the LORD's Temple.
He made
2 Chronicles 33:3
He re-established the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he built altars to the Baals, erected Asherim, and worshipped and served the armies of heaven.
Jeremiah 2:28
"But where are your gods that you made for yourselves? Let them rise up, if they can deliver you in the time of your trouble. You have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.
Hosea 12:11
"There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.
Acts 17:16
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was deeply disturbed to see the city full of idols.
General references
Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your clothes and made gaily-colored high places and prostituted yourself all around them something which had never happened before nor will ever happen again.