Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 16:13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
13. his meat offering ] R.V. meal-offering. See above 2Ki 3:20 note. The same change is to be made three times over in verse 15 below. The king’s wish and order was that not only all his own sacrifices, but all those of the people, should be offered upon the new altar. He did not propose to put down the worship of Jehovah and to substitute any other, but that instead of the altar made according to a divine pattern there should be used one of a fashion which pleased himself, and which would shew to the Assyrians that he was not unfavourable to their divinities.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For the heathens, and Ahaz, in imitation of them, offered the same sorts of offerings to their false gods which the Israelites did to the true, the devil being noted to be Gods ape in his worship.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And he burnt his burnt offering, and his meat offering,…. Which went together according to the law of God, and was imitated by the Heathens:
and poured his drink offering; a libation of wine, as probably it was, like what they used according to the Levitical law:
and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar; as used according to the same law; for all sorts of sacrifices were offered by idolaters, as by the people of God, in imitation of them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(13) And he burnt his burnt offering . . .The verse describes the thank-offering of Ahaz for his late deliverance from deadly peril. From the present narrative it does not appear but that he offered it to Jehovah. The account in 2Ch. 28:23 must be understood to refer to other sacrifices instituted by Ahaz, who, like most of his contemporaries, thought the traditional worship of Jehovah not incompatible with the cultus of foreign deities. (Comp. 2Ki. 16:3-4.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ki 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
Ver. 13. And he burnt his burnt offering. ] Uzziah for so doing was smitten with leprosy; but Ahaz of a far worse disease, an incurable hardness of heart. So was Gardiner, Bonner, Pool, Stokesley, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
burnt = offered up. App-43.
burnt his burnt offering. Figure of speech Polyptoton for emphasis.
meat offering = meal offering. App-48.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
he burnt: Lev 1:1 – Lev 3:16
of his peace offerings: Heb. of the peace-offerings which were his
Reciprocal: 2Ch 26:16 – went into 2Ch 28:23 – For he sacrificed
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 16:13-14. And he burned his burnt-offering, &c. For the heathen, and Ahaz, in imitation of them, offered the same sorts of offerings to their false gods which the Israelites did to the true. He brought also the brazen altar Namely, the altar of burnt-offerings made by Solomon, and placed there by Gods appointment; from before the Lord That is, from before the Lords house, Lev 1:3. From between the altar, &c. Urijah had placed Ahazs altar behind that of the Lord, namely, between it and the east gate of the court of the priests: but when Ahaz came, taking this for a disparagement to his altar, he impiously and audaciously removed the altar of the Lord to the north side of the court, and set his own in the place of it. A bolder stroke this, than the very worst of the kings had hitherto given to religion.