Graphic Bible · Scene 17 of 20

Craftsmen dismantle the frames of bronze stands and set the great bronze Sea onto a stone pavement, leaving the oxen supports visibly separate.
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2 Kings 16:17

Bronze furnishings altered

The Altar from Damascus · 2 Kings 16

Story guide: Ahaz removes the basins and lowers the Sea onto stone pavement.

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17Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the Sea from upon the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.

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