2 Kings 21:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.
  • 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
  • 2 Kgs 21:4 : 4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.
  • 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.
  • 2 Chr 7:12 : 12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.
  • 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.
  • Neh 1:9 : 9 But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure. 69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.
  • 1 Kgs 8:44 : 44 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 33:7
    93%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-6
    4 verses
    81%

    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

    4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

    5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

    6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    77%

    16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

    5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 2 Chr 6:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

    7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    74%

    3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
    74%

    10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    74%

    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    74%

    13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

    17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

    11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    73%

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    73%

    1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    73%

    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • 1 Chr 28:6-7
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    73%

    6 And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

    7 I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
    73%

    22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    73%

    7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    73%

    5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    73%

    8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

  • Judg 18:31
    72%

    31 And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

    14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    72%

    3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jer 7:12
    72%

    12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    72%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 Sam 7:7
    72%

    7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    72%

    15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

  • Acts 7:47
    72%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4 See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    72%

    12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    72%

    7 He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
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    5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    72%

    19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 6:12
    71%

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.