SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:17
¶ Y cortó el rey Acaz las molduras de las basas, y les quitó las fuentes; quitó también el mar de sobre los bueyes de bronce que estaban debajo de él, y lo puso sobre el solado de piedra.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them , etc.] In the temple there were ten lavers for the priests to wash in, which are here meant, the singular being put for the plural; and these had bases of brass, on which they were set; and about these bases were borders, which had on them figures of various creatures, lions, oxen, and cherubim; and these Ahaz cut off, either to deface them, in contempt of them, or to convert the brass to other uses, as he might also the bases themselves, since he removed the lavers from off of them, (see 1 Kings 7:27-30) and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen [that were] under it ; the molten sea Solomon made, which he set upon twelve oxen made of brass; this Ahaz took down from thence, either to abate its magnificence, and render it despicable, or for the sake of the brass, of which the oxen were made, (see 1 Kings 7:23-26) and put it upon a pavement of stones ; not upon the floor of the temple, for that was of wood, fir, or cedar, but on rows of stones, placed instead of bases for it to stand upon.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-20 - Ahaz put contempt upon the sabbath, and thus opened a wide inlet to all manner of sin. This he did for the king of Assyria. When those who have had a ready passage to the house of the Lord, turn it another way to please their neighbours, they are going down-hill apace to ruin __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויקצץ 7112 המלך 4428 אחז 271 את 853 המסגרות 4526 המכנות 4350 ויסר 5493 מעליהם 5921 ואת 853 הכיר 853 ואת 853 הים 3220 הורד 3381 מעל 5921 הבקר 1241 הנחשׁת 5178 אשׁר 834 תחתיה ויתן 5414 אתו 853 על 5921 מרצפת 4837 אבנים׃ 68
