2 Chronicles 33:5

He built these altars to worship the sun, moon, and stars in both courtyards of the Lord's Temple.

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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

4He built altars in the Lord's Temple, about which the Lord had said, “I shall be honored in Jerusalem forever.”

6He sacrificed his children by burning them to death in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and visited mediums and spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:9Solomon also built a courtyard of the priests, and the large courtyard and doors for the courtyard, and he covered the doors with bronze.

Jeremiah 32:34They have put their disgusting idols in my Temple, making it unclean.

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 →

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