2 Kings 16:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ The priest Uriah did everything that King Ahaz commanded.

¹⁷ Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands, and removed the laver from them; he removed the sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pediment of stone. ¹⁸ The covered portal for use on the sabbath that had been built inside the palace, and the outer entrance for the king he removed from^[a] the house of the Lord. He did this because of the king of Assyria.