John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 29:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Moreover, all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, etc.] Not that he threw them away, being valuable, as made of gold and silver; but, as Kimchi interprets it, he removed them, and converted them to idolatrous uses; or, as the Targum, he defiled or profaned them, and made them abominable by strange idols: have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord; they had cleaned them, and fitted them for service, and had put them where they were ready for use; though the Targum is, “we have laid them aside, and hid them, and prepared others in their room,” as unfit for divine service; and which is the sense of other Jewish writers f124 .

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