{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2045","native_reference":{"book_number":120,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: I certainly do not think that he built [the altar] for the God of all things but just for certain of those who are falsely called gods. This is what the book of Chronicles points out. It reads, \"In the time of his distress this king Ahaz became yet more faithless to the Lord. For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had defeated him, and said, \"Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.\" But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.\" And this is also signified by the next verse: \"Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God and cut in pieces the utensils of the house of God. He shut up the doors of the house of the Lord and made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.\" He did these and other similar things, as is also confirmed in the book of Chronicles: \"When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. King Ahaz sent to the priest Uriah a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.\" He removed the genuine altar of bronze, which Solomon had built, and put in its place another one recently made. And what happened to the stands is revealed by what follows: \"King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands,\" the text says, \"and removed the laver from them.\" And he even dared to commit another act of impiety: he moved the entrance of the royal house into the divine temple, transforming the sacred enclosure into a thoroughfare.<br/><i>— QUESTION 48, ON 2 KINGS</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2384e9af38eef07e0f9291cac10d270a242028ef9a1ceb45296aa2b66e9b23c5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2045,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6ac3e89fad1731a58b02657006f5da2f8aaaffacab2925482147b2cf11440ea2","translator":null,"work":null}