2 Kings 21:5

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

6And he caused his son to pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much that is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and one row of cedar beams.

2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Chilkiyahu the high-priest, and the priests of the second order, and the door-keepers, to carry forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Ba'al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven: and they burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes unto Beth-el.

2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper-chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Menasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down, and tore them away from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 33:5And he built altars for 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 Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward to the sun.

Ezekiel 40:32And he brought me into the inner court on the east side; and he measured the gate after 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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