2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in the Lord's Temple, about which the Lord had said, “I shall be honored in Jerusalem forever.”
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5He built these altars to worship the sun, moon, and stars in both courtyards of the Lord's Temple.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:29May you watch over this Temple day and night, caring for the place where you said you would be honored. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place,
2 Kings 16:11So Uriah the priest built an altar following all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, completing it before King Ahaz returned.
2 Kings 21:4He set up pagan altars in the Lord's Temple, right where the Lord had said, “I will place my name in Jerusalem forever.”
2 Chronicles 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem so that I will be honored there, and I have chosen David to rule over my people Israel.’
2 Chronicles 32:19They talked about the God of Jerusalem like they did about the gods of the other nations, gods made by human beings.
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to publicly worship the God of David his forefather, and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the metal 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 →