KJV ORIGINAL
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
Urijah the priest built an altar exactly like the one King Ahaz had seen and sent details about from Damascus. Urijah finished making it before King Ahaz returned from Damascus.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse shows how a priest compromised his faith by building a pagan altar to please his king, replacing God's original altar with a foreign design.
📚 Historical Context
King Ahaz of Judah had traveled to Damascus to meet with the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III around 732 BC. While there, he saw a pagan altar and sent its design back to Jerusalem. Urijah, who should have been faithful to God's commands about worship, instead chose to please the king by building this foreign altar in God's temple.
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