2 Chronicles 33:4
Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
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In Context
5But he built these for the entire army of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:29so that your eyes may be open over this house, night and day, over the house about which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ so that you may heed the prayer that your servant is praying in this place to you.
2 Kings 16:11And Uriah, the priest, constructed an altar in accord with all that king Ahaz had commanded from Damascus. Uriah, the priest, did so, until king Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
2 Kings 21:4And he constructed altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord said: “In Jerusalem, I will place my name.”
2 Chronicles 6:6But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.’
2 Chronicles 32:19And he was speaking against the God of Jerusalem, just as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are works of the hands of men.
2 Chronicles 34:3Now in the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David. And in the twelfth year after he had begun to reign, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the sacred groves, and the idols, and the graven images.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:2-11
The Reign of Manasseh. ( b. c. 662.) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 Also he built altars in the… Read the whole commentary →