2 Kings 21:5

American Standard Version (1901)

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:12 : 12 And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.
  • 2 Kgs 23:4 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
  • 1 Kgs 6:36 : 36 And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
  • 2 Kgs 23:12 : 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Chr 33:5 : 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
  • Ezek 40:28 : 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
  • Ezek 40:32 : 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
  • Ezek 40:37 : 37 And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
  • Ezek 40:47 : 47 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
  • Ezek 43:5 : 5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
  • Ezek 44:19 : 19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

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  • 2 Chr 33:3-7
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    96%

    3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

    4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

    6He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

    7And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-4
    3 verses
    84%

    2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

    3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

    4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

  • 2 Kgs 21:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

    7And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

  • 2 Kgs 23:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

    5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

    32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    75%

    25And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.

  • Jer 19:13
    74%

    13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    74%

    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

  • Zeph 1:5
    74%

    5and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship, that swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam;

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    74%

    31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Chr 28:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.

    3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16And he built up the altar of Jehovah, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

    35Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    73%

    15and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

    2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    72%

    11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    72%

    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
    72%

    12Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

  • Ezek 8:16
    72%

    16And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

  • 2 Kgs 21:21
    72%

    21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

  • 1 Kgs 22:53
    72%

    53And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5
    71%

    5And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    71%

    26And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    71%

    17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

  • 1 Chr 21:29
    71%

    29For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    70%

    19And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 34:4-5
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    70%

    4And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them.

    5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Deut 17:3
    70%

    3and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    70%

    1Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    70%

    7Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.