2 Kings 21:5

And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

In Context

4And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

6And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

2 Kings 23:4Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

2 Kings 23:12And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

2 Chronicles 33:5And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 8:16And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

Ezekiel 40:32And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:2-10

Manasseh's Impious Reign. ( b. c. 698.) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the… Read the whole commentary →

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