Verse 4

He built altars in the temple of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.'

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  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.
  • 2 Chr 6:6 : 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule over My people Israel.'
  • 2 Chr 32:19 : 19 They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
  • 2 Chr 34:3-4 : 3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols. 4 In his presence, they tore down the altars of the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols, crushing them into powder, and he scattered the dust over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
  • Jer 7:30 : 30 For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then to the place the Lord your God chooses for His name to dwell, you shall bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and all the choice offerings you have vowed to the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 'May Your eyes be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You said, “My name shall be there,” to hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.'
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 The LORD said to him, 'I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will always be there.'
  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.' 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house.