Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said
New American Standard Bible
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
King James Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Holman Bible
Uriah the priest did everything King Ahaz commanded.
International Standard Version
So Uriah the priest did precisely what King Ahaz ordered.
A Conservative Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
American Standard Version
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Amplified
Urijah the priest acted in accordance with everything that King Ahaz commanded.
Darby Translation
And Urijah the priest did according to all that king Ahaz had commanded.
Julia Smith Translation
And Urijah the priest will do according to all which king Ahaz commanded.
King James 2000
Thus did Uriah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Modern King James verseion
And Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Uriah the priest did all things as king Ahaz commanded him.
NET Bible
So Uriah the priest did exactly as King Ahaz ordered.
New Heart English Bible
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
The Emphasized Bible
So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Webster
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
World English Bible
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Themes
Altar » In solomon's temple » Removed by ahaz, and one of idolatrous fashion substituted
Altar of burnt-offering » Ahaz removed and profaned
Church and state » State superior to religion » Ahaz, in transforming the altars
Israel » Ahaz » Changes » Altar
Temple » Solomon's » Ahaz changes the pattern of the altar in
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 16:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Damascus Falls To The Assyrians
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 17 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.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 16:11
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.
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.