Changed the ordinance

Ahaz “made Judah naked and transgressed sore against the Lord.” He robbed the temple to hire help from Assyria against Syria and Israel. He copied the pattern of an altar at Damascus, and made one like it in Jerusalem. To make room for this, he removed the brazen altar of sacrifice out of its place, and “changed the ordinances.” He also “cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones” (2 Kings 16). This was a complete destruction of the typical significance of these “patterns of things in the heavens.” It was a typical repudiation of the Christ-Altar (Heb. 13), a typical substitution of human for divine “foundations” (Eph. 2:19–22), for the house of Israel represented by this strangely supported “sea.” No one having respect to the “everlasting covenant” or “sure mercies of David” (Isa. 55:3) would have done such things, far less aggravate them by “causing his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the Son of Hinnom,” as Manasseh did afterwards (2 Chron. 33:6).

Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (407–408). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.