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Verse 2 Kings 16:18. _AND THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH_] There are a
great number of conjectures concerning this _covert_, or, as it is in
the Hebrew, the מוסך _musach, of the Sabbath_. As the word, an...
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THE COVERT ... IN THE HOUSE - A canopied seat in the temple for the
king and his family when they attended public worship on the sabbath.
It stood no doubt in the inner court of the temple.
THE KING’S...
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7. KING AHAZ AND ASSYRIA
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. King Ahaz and his reign (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Chronicles 28)_
2. The invasion by the two kings (2 Kings 16:5)
3. Ahaz appeals to Assyria ...
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2 KINGS 16. REIGN OF AHAZ. This chapter is assigned to different
sources, and deals mainly with the king's alteration of the Temple,
though it alludes to his apostasy and his wars. The Temple record ...
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COVERT. the covered way.
FOR. because of....
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_And the covert_[R.V. THE COVERED WAY] _for the sabbath_ The noun,
which occurs nowhere else, signifies some colonnade along which the
king could pass when on the sabbath he went to the temple. It is...
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AND THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH— Something, perhaps, which was made
for this purpose, that, on the sabbath days, there coming a great
throng, the porch not being able to contain them, they might be kep...
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B. THE REIGN OF AHAZ 16:1-20
Considerable attention is devoted to Ahaz because of the religious
significance of his reign. For the first time since the bloody reign
of Athaliah, the Davidic dynasty fa...
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_AND THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH THAT THEY HAD BUILT IN THE HOUSE, AND
THE KING'S ENTRY WITHOUT, TURNED HE FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR THE
KING OF ASSYRIA._
And the covert for the sabbath that they...
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THE COVERT] RV 'the covered way': not mentioned in the description of
Solomon's Temple. TURNED HE FROM] RV 'he turned unto.' What is meant
is obscure. FOR] RV 'because of': probably the alterations de...
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AHAZ AND ASSYRIA
This chapter describes the reign of Ahaz of Judah, his appeal to
Assyria when attacked by Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria, and the
overthrow of Damascus by the king of Assyria....
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 16
AHAZ’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH
V1 Ahaz, Jotham’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. That was in
the 17th year of...
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AND KING AHAZ CUT OFF. — The key to the right understanding of these
verses is given in the last words of 2 Kings 16:18. Ahaz spoiled the
Temple of its ornamental work, not out of wanton malice, but f...
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THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH. — A very obscure expression. The best
interpretation is “the covered hall (or stand) set apart for the use
of the king and his attendants when he visited the Temple on holy...
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וְ אֶת־_מוּסַ֨ךְ_† הַ שַּׁבָּ֜ת
אֲשֶׁר ־בָּנ֣וּ...
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THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ
2 Kings 16:1
"For when we in our wickedness grow hard,
Oh the misery on't! the wise gods seal our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors;...
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ
B.C. 735-715
2 Kings 16:1
"Rimmon, whose delightful seat
Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks
Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.
He also against the House was bold:
A l...
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HIGH-HANDED IDOLATRY
2 Kings 16:10
The calling in of the king of Assyria was fraught with disastrous
consequences. “He distressed him and strengthened him not.” Well
may the Apostle warn us not to be...
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Perhaps the sin of Judah had its most awful expression during the
reign of Ahaz. The king first sought help from the Assyrians under
Tiglathpileser in his time of difficulty, and this was by deliberat...
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And the (l) covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house,
and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD (m)
for the king of Assyria.
(l) Or tent, in which they lay on...
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Musach. The covert, or pavilion, or tribune for the king. (Challoner)
--- Achaz would not have his ally to be in the court, but placed his
throne in the temple. (Du Hamel) --- Septuagint, "and the fou...
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I include the whole of the remainder of the life of Ahaz in one view,
because it only leads the mind to discover the progress of his impiety
until the measure of it was full. Reader! can we contemplat...
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But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings
13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more
glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17.
Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu
was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of
Jehovah...
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AND THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH THAT THEY HAD BUILT IN THE HOUSE,....
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 prie...
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And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and
the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the
king of Assyria.
Ver. 18. _And the covert for the Sabbath._...
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_The covert for the sabbath, turned he from the house of the Lord_
There is a great variety of opinions concerning this מוסךְ
השׂבת, _musach hahsabbath_, or _covert of_, or _for the sabbath_,
here spo...
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1 Ahaz his wicked reigne.
5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hireth Tiglath Pileser against
them.
10 Ahaz sending a paterne of an Altar from Damascus to Urijah,
diuerteth the brasen Altar to his ow...
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And the covert for the Sabbath that they had built in the house,
evidently a covered hall in the court of the Temple, set apart for the
king when he visited the Sanctuary, AND THE KING'S ENTRY WITHOUT...
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AHAZ PROFANES THE TEMPLE...
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THE WICKEDNESS OF AHAZ
(vv.1-4).
Ahaz stands in startling contrast to his father. His mother's name is
not mentioned, perhaps because she was not worth mentioning. Ahaz was
20 years old when he bega...
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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...
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THE COVERT FOR THE SABBATH; the form and use whereof is now unknown.
It is generally understood of some building or covert; either that
where the priests, after their weekly course was ended, abode un...
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THE SUBSEQUENT BASTARDISATION OF THE TEMPLE RESULTING FROM AHAZ'S
SUBMISSION. THE TEMPLE IS DESPOILED (2 KINGS 16:12).
What followed was unquestionably a bastardisation of the Temple. The
‘true' altar...
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ KING OF JUDAH C. 732/1-716/15 BC. CO-REGENT FROM
744/43 BC.
Ahaz came to the throne of Judah as sole ruler at a crucial time in
Judah's history. Never before in that history had they...
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CONTENTS: Reign of Ahaz over Judah. Assyrians take Damascus.
CHARACTERS: God, Ahaz, Tiglath-pileser, Urijah, Rezin, Pekah.
CONCLUSION: That religion is of no worth which is guided by fancy
instead o...
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2 Kings 16:3. Ahaz _made his son pass through the fire._ It appears
from the poets that the heathens did commonly dedicate a child to a
god by lustrations; that is, by causing him to pass between two...
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_In the seventeenth year of Pekah._
A PEOPLE’S KING AND PRIEST, OR KINGHOOD AND PRIESTHOOD
I. The kinghood.
1. The de-humanising force of false religion. Ahaz was an idolator.
2. The national curs...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 16:17 CUT OFF THE FRAMES... TOOK DOWN THE
SEA. See 1 Kings 7:23. Ahaz desecrates the furnishings of the temple
in order not to offend his
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THE REIGN OF AHAZ IN JUDAH
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 16:2. TWENTY YEARS OLD WAS AHAB WHEN, &c.—The _Sept._ MS. of
the Vatican, and other MSS., give “_twenty-five_” in the
corresponding...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 16:1
REIGN OF AHAZ OVER JUDAH. WAR OF AHAZ WITH PEKAH AND REZIN. EXPEDITION
OF TIGLATH-
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Now in the seventeenth year of Pekah, Remaliah or the son of Remaliah,
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign (2 Kings 16:1).
Ahaz the son of Jotham. So you have now an Ahaz reigning. Us...
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1 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 11:5; Ezekiel 46:2...
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The covert — The form and use whereof is now unknown. It is
generally understood of some building, either that where the priests
after their weekly course was ended, abode until the next course came;...