2 Kings 21:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

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  • 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
  • 2 Kgs 16:10-16 : 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. 13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar. 14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    93%

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

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:5
    84%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    81%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    79%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    76%

    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 host of heaven, and served them.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    75%

    8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

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

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

    16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

    21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    72%

    16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

  • 2 Chr 6:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

    11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    72%

    1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    72%

    35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    72%

    17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • Jer 7:12
    72%

    12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    72%

    5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    72%

    13 And 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 Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    71%

    4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

  • Jer 19:13
    71%

    13 And the houses of usalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of 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 1:4
    71%

    4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 34:4
    71%

    4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    71%

    12 Hath 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 burn incense upon it?

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 32:34
    71%

    34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    71%

    3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

  • Gen 13:4
    71%

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

  • Jer 7:30
    71%

    30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

  • 1 Chr 22:7
    71%

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    71%

    7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:27
    71%

    27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

  • 2 Chr 27:4
    70%

    4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    70%

    32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

  • Jer 7:14
    70%

    14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    70%

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