2 Kings 21:5

And he built altars for al the hoste of ye heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

4Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, of the which the Lord saide, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.

6And he caused his sonnes to passe through the fire, and gaue him selfe to witchcraft and sorcerie, and he vsed them that had familiar spirits and were soothsayers, and did much euill in the sight of the Lord to anger him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36And hee built the court within with three rowes of hewed stone, and one rowe of beames of cedar.

2 Kings 23:4Then the King commanded Hilkiah the hie Priest and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the doore, to bring out of ye Temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the groue, and for all the hoste of heauen, and he burnt them without Ierusalem in the fieldes of Kedron, and caryed the pouder of them into Beth-el.

2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the Kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord did the King breake downe, and hasted thence, and cast the dust of them in the brooke Kedron.

2 Chronicles 33:5And he built altars for all the hoste of the heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 8:16And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lordes house, and beholde, at the doore of the Temple of the Lord, betweene the porche and the altar were about fiue and twentie men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their faces towarde the East, and they worshipped the sunne, towarde the East.

Ezekiel 40:32Againe he brought me into ye inner court toward the East, and he measured the gate according to 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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