2 Kings 16:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ Urijah the priest did all this as King Ahaz commanded.

¹⁷ [To keep Assyria’s king from getting them] King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases [of the ten lavers] and removed the laver from each of them; and he took down the Sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it upon stone supports.

¹⁸ And the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the temple court, and the king’s outer entrance, he removed from the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria [who if he heard of them might seize them].