2 Chronicles 33:5

And he builds altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH.

Literal Standard Version

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 has built altars in the house of YHWH of which YHWH had said, “My Name is in Jerusalem for all time.”

6And he has caused his sons to pass over through fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he has multiplied to do evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke him to anger.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:9And he makes the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and he has overlaid their doors with bronze.

Jeremiah 32:34And they set their abominations in the house over which My Name is called, so as to defile it.

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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