2 Chronicles 33:4
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name forever.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:29that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place of which thou saidst, My name shall be there, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays at this place day and night.
2 Kings 16:11And Uriah the priest built the altar, according to all the directions which King Ahaz sent from Damascus.
2 Kings 21:4And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.
2 Chronicles 6:6But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:19And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, even as against the gods of the nations of the earth, the works of the hands of men.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten 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 →