SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:18
Asimismo la tienda del sábado que habían edificado en la Casa, y el pasadizo de afuera del rey, los mudó a las espaldas de la Casa del SEÑOR, por amor del rey de Asiria.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 16:18
Verse 18. And the covert for the Sabbath] There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert, or, as it is in the Hebrew, the ûswm musach, of the Sabbath. As the word, and others derived from the same root, signify covering or booths, it is very likely that this means either a sort of canopy which was erected on the Sabbath days for the accommodation of the people who came to worship, and which Ahaz took away to discourage them from that worship; or a canopy under which the king and his family reposed themselves, and which he transported to some other place to accommodate the king of Assyria when he visited him. Jarchi supposes that it was a sort of covert way that the kings of Judah had to the temple, and Ahaz had it removed lest the king of Assyria, going by that way, and seeing the sacred vessels, should covet them. If that way had been open, he might have gone by it into the temple, and have seen the sacred vessels, and so have asked them from a man who was in no condition to refuse them, however unwilling he might be to give them up.
The removing of this, whatever it was, whether throne or canopy, or covered way, cut off the communication between the king's house and the temple; and the king of Assyria would not attempt to go into that sacred place by that other passage to which the priests alone had access.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house , etc.] Used on the sabbath day, either for the people to sit under to hear the law explained by the priests; or for the course of the priests to be in, that went out that day, to give way to the course that entered, which yet did not depart from the temple till evening; or rather for the king himself to sit under, while attending the temple service of that day, and might be the cover of the scaffold, ( 2 Chronicles 6:13) and be very rich cloth of gold; and therefore he took it away for the king of Assyria, or to signify that he should not frequent the place any more: and hence it follows, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the Lord ; the way which led from the king’s palace to it, he turned it a round about way, that it might not be discerned there was a way from the one to the other: and this he did for the king of Assyria ; to gratify him, that he might from hence conclude that he had wholly relinquished the worship of God in the temple, and should cleave to the gods of Damascus and Syria; or for fear of him, that he might not see the way into the temple, and take away the vessels; or find him, should he be obliged to hide himself there, when in danger by him.
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
ואת 853 מיסך 4329 השׁבת 7676 אשׁר 834 בנו 1129 בבית 1004 ואת 853 מבוא 3996 המלך 4428 החיצונה 2435 הסב 5437 בית 1004 יהוה 3068 מפני 6440 מלך 4428 אשׁור׃ 804
