Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,.... So that there was no entering into the temple, 2Ch 28:24and put out the lamps; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say , that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day:and have not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel; but had done these in the high places to idols, 2Ch 28:3.
Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect.