SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:10
¶ Y fue el rey Acaz a encontrar a Tiglat-pileser rey de Asiria en Damasco; y viendo el rey Acaz el altar que estaba en Damasco, envió a Urías sacerdote el diseño y la descripción del altar, conforme a toda su hechura.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:10
Verse 10. Ahaz went to Damascus] He had received so much help on the defeat of Rezin, that he went to Damascus to meet the king of Assyria, and render him thanks. Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar] This was some idolatrous altar, the shape and workmanship of which pleased Ahaz so well that he determined to have one like it at Jerusalem. For this he had no Divine authority, and the compliance of Urijah was both mean and sinful.
That Ahaz did this for an idolatrous purpose, is evident from 2 Chron. xxviii. 21-25: "For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus;-and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. And he made high places to burn incense to other gods in every city of Judah."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria , etc.] When he heard he was come thither, and had taken it, to congratulate him on the victory, and to give him thanks for his assistance; which place from Jerusalem was one hundred and sixty miles, according to Bunting f187 and saw an altar that was at Damascus ; where, in all probability, he attended at the sacrifice on it along with the king of Assyria: and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof ; not only the size and form of it, but all the decorations and figures on it, with which it was wrought. This Urijah was very probably the high priest, for it can scarcely be thought that Ahaz would write to any other, or that any other priest would or could have complied with his request; and he seems to be the same Isaiah took to be a witness in a certain affair, though he now degenerated from the character he gives of him, ( Isaiah 8:2).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-16 - God's altar had hitherto been kept in its place, and in use; but Aha put another in the room of it. The natural regard of the mind of man to some sort of religion, is not easily extinguished; but except it be regulated by the word, and by the Spirit of God, it produces absur superstitions, or detestable idolatries. Or, at best, it quiets the sinner's conscience with unmeaning ceremonies. Infidels have often bee remarkable for believing ridiculous falsehoods.
Original Hebrew
וילך 1980 המלך 4428 אחז 271 לקראת 7125 תגלת פלאסר 8407 מלך 4428 אשׁור 804 דומשׂק 1834 וירא 7200 את 853 המזבח 4196 אשׁר 834 בדמשׂק 1834 וישׁלח 7971 המלך 4428 אחז 271 אל 413 אוריה 223 הכהן 3548 את 853 דמות 1823 המזבח 4196 ואת 853 תבניתו 8403 לכל 3605 מעשׂהו׃ 4639
