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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 28:24Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
- Lev 24:2–8“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- Mal 1:10“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
- 2 Kgs 16:17–18King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
- 2 Chr 29:3In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
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