2 Kings 21:5

And he built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

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 built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.

6And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made + 21:6 Lit. peculiar places cut off.groves, and multiplied + 21:6 Alex. θελητὴν.wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36a and he made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple.

2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the + 23:4 The Gr. is from the Heb. word.fields of Kedron, and + 23:4 Gr. cast.took the ashes of them to Bæthel.

2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

2 Chronicles 33:5And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 8:16And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

Ezekiel 40:32And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to 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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