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.

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Bible References

Cut in pieces

2 Kings 16:17
Then King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the water carts and removed from upon them the basin, and the sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
2 Kings 25:13
The bronze pillars which [were in] the temple of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon.

Shut up

2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them.

He made

2 Chronicles 33:3
And {he rebuilt} the high places that Hezekiah his father broke down, and he set up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to the host of heaven and served them.
Jeremiah 2:28
But where [are] your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For [according to] the number of your towns are your gods, Judah.
Hosea 12:11
If [in] Gilead [there is] evil, surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, also their altars will be like stone heaps on furrows of [the] field.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him [when he] observed the city was full of idols.

General references

Ezekiel 16:16
And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorful shrines, and you prostituted on them; {this had not happened before}, and it {will not continue to happen}.