2 Kings 21:5
And he builds altars to 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 said, “In Jerusalem I put My Name.”
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36And he builds the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar.
2 Kings 23:4And the king commands Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out from the temple of YHWH all the vessels that are made for Ba‘al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens, and he burns them at the outside of Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and has carried their ashes to Beth-El.
2 Kings 23:12And the altars that [are] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, that the kings of Judah made, and the altars that Manasseh made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king has broken down, and removes from there, and has cast their dust into the Brook of Kidron.
2 Chronicles 33:5And he builds altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH.
Ezekiel 8:16And He brings me into the inner court of the house of YHWH, and behold, at the opening of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun.
Ezekiel 40:32And he brings me into the inner court eastward, and he measures the gate according to these measurements;
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 →