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2 Kings 16

2 Kings 16:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andc king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
Ahaz
'Achaz (Hebrew #271)
possessor; Achaz, the name of a Jewish king and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Ahaz.
Pronounce: aw-khawz'
Origin: from 270
cut off
qatsats (Hebrew #7112)
to chop off (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: cut (asunder, in pieces, in sunder, off), X utmost.
Pronounce: kaw-tsats'
Origin: a primitive root
the borders
micgereth (Hebrew #4526)
something enclosing, i.e. a margin (of a region, of a panel); concretely, a stronghold
KJV usage: border, close place, hole.
Pronounce: mis-gheh'-reth
Origin: from 5462
of the bases
mkownah (Hebrew #4350)
feminine of 4349; a pedestal, also a spot
KJV usage: base.
Pronounce: mek-o-naw'
Origin: or mkonah {mek-o-naw'}
, and removed
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
the laver
kiyowr (Hebrew #3595)
from the same as 3564; properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish for coals or a caldron for cooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
KJV usage: hearth, laver, pan, scaffold.
Pronounce: kee-yore'
Origin: or kiyor {kee-yore'}
from off them; and took down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
from off the brazen
nchosheth (Hebrew #5178)
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
KJV usage: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Pronounce: nekh-o'-sheth
Origin: for 5154
oxen
baqar (Hebrew #1241)
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
KJV usage: beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Pronounce: baw-kawr'
Origin: from 1239
that were under it, and put
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
it upon a pavement
martsepheth (Hebrew #4837)
a pavement
KJV usage: pavement.
Pronounce: mar-tseh'-feth
Origin: from 7528
of stones
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
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1 Kings 7:23,28• 23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 28And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: (1 Kings 7:23,28)

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Ahaz,
King,
Laver,
Ox; Oxen,
Pavement,
Sea,
Stones

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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A.M. 3265.
B.C. 739.
cut off.
2 Chron. 28:24• 24And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 28:24)
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2 Chron. 29:19• 19Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord. (2 Chron. 29:19)
borders.
1 Kings 7:23,27‑39• 23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 27And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
 28And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
 29And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
 30And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
 31And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
 32And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
 33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
 34And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
 35And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
 36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
 37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
 38Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
 39And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. (1 Kings 7:23,27‑39)
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2 Chron. 4:14• 14He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; (2 Chron. 4:14)
sea.
2 Kings 25:13‑16• 13And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
 14And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
 15And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
 16The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. (2 Kings 25:13‑16)
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1 Kings 7:23‑26• 23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 24And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
 25It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
 26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. (1 Kings 7:23‑26)
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2 Chron. 4:15• 15One sea, and twelve oxen under it. (2 Chron. 4:15)
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Jer. 52:20• 20The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. (Jer. 52:20)
• The lavers (2 Kings 16:17), which … served for washing the victims, typifying the complete absence of defilement in Christ offered for expiation....The thought of the perfect purity of Christ, the Lamb of God, is given up by making Him subject to the same tendencies that we have and by presenting Him as One tempted by internal lusts to which He never yielded. While keeping the lavers, they remove them from their bases. (“Ahaz, King of Judah: 2 Kings 16” by H.L. Rossier)
• It was the same for the brazen sea (2 Kings 16:17), vessel for the daily purification of the priests. This was set upon oxen, symbolic of the God’s patience toward His people with regard to their practical purification. This purification could not be accepted except by virtue of God’s longsuffering in all His ways toward His people. Ahaz removed the basin from that which constituted its base and “put it upon a stone pavement!” Is not this stone pavement a striking picture of the nature and heart of man? (“Ahaz, King of Judah: 2 Kings 16” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the lavers from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a stone pavement.