They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- KJV Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
- NKJV They have also shut up the doors of the vestibule, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- NASB They have also shut the doors of the porch and extinguished the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- NLT They also shut the doors to the Temple’s entry room, and they snuffed out the lamps. They stopped burning incense and presenting burnt offerings at the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
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Quick answer
He recounts that the fathers shut the temple doors, extinguished the lamps, and ceased the incense and burnt offerings to God. The neglect of worship under Ahaz is laid out as the heart of the problem.
Overview
Hezekiah details how prescribed worship was abandoned: closed doors, darkened lamps, and discontinued offerings to the God of Israel. The cessation of these appointed rites severed the nation's covenant fellowship with the LORD. The restoration of light, incense, and sacrifice points forward to Christ, the true light and the one perfect offering who restores fellowship with God.
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Cross-references · 5
- 2 Chr 28:24Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
- Lev 24:2–8“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
- Mal 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
- 2 Kgs 16:17–18King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
- 2 Chr 29:3In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
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