2 Chronicles 33:4

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
    3 verses
    93%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

    4He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.'

    5He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    85%

    5He built altars to all the stars of the sky in both courtyards of the temple of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    79%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    79%

    7Manasseh took a carved idol that he had made and placed it in the temple of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, 'In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    77%

    7He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had 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, I will put My name forever.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15He 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.

    16Then he restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thanksgiving. And he commanded Judah to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

    32He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    73%

    8They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

    35However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham built the upper gate of the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

    2However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD and carried out extensive construction on the wall of the Ophel.

    4He also built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests, he constructed fortresses and towers.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    72%

    12Hasn't the same Hezekiah removed his high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4The house I am building will be large because our God is greater than all gods.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3In 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.

    4In 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.

    5He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    72%

    32For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar at Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the towns of Samaria will surely be fulfilled.

  • 2 Chr 28:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

    25In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    71%

    16I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    71%

    13The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    71%

    4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    71%

    7He tore down the altars and the Asherah poles, smashed the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    71%

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

  • Gen 13:4
    71%

    4To the place of the altar he had made there at first, and Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

  • Jer 32:34
    70%

    34They set up detestable idols in the house that bears My name and defiled it.

  • Ps 78:69
    70%

    69He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3The 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.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    70%

    13I have indeed built a high and exalted house for You, a place where You may dwell forever.

  • Jer 33:4
    70%

    4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword:

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    70%

    1Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    70%

    15Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    70%

    4The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second rank, and the gatekeepers to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the objects made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and scattered their ashes on the graves of the people.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    70%

    5Judah and Israel lived in safety, each man under his own vine and fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    69%

    4However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.

  • 2 Kgs 16:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Uriah the priest constructed the altar following all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. By the time the king returned from Damascus, the altar was ready.

    12When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar, approached it, and offered sacrifices on it.

  • Jer 11:13
    69%

    13For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    69%

    2And I have built a lofty house for You, a place for You to dwell forever.

  • Josh 22:23
    69%

    23If we have built an altar to turn away from following the LORD, or to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings, or to offer fellowship sacrifices on it, may the LORD Himself call us to account.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    69%

    13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    69%

    4However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    69%

    12He will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.