Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,.... So that there was no entering into the temple, Ch2 28:24. and put out the lamps; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say (n), that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day: and have not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel; but had done these in the high places to idols, Ch2 28:3. (n) Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2.