2 Chronicles 33:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבָנָ֥ה מִזְבְּח֖וֹת בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בִּירוּשָׁלַ֥͏ִם יִֽהְיֶה־שְּׁמִ֖י לְעוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

Ûvānāh mizbeḥôt bevêt YHWH ăsher ʾāmar YHWH bîrûshālaim yihyeh-shemî leʿôlām

Grammar Details

*Ûvānāh*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he built
*mizbeḥôt*: masculine plural noun - altars
*bevêt*: preposition + masculine singular construct - in house of
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh
*ăsher*: relative particle - of which
*ʾāmar*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
*bîrûshālaim*: preposition + proper noun - in Jerusalem
*yihyeh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will be
*shemî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my name
*leʿôlām*: preposition + masculine singular noun - forever

Word Meanings

*bevêt* *YHWH*: in the house of Yahweh/in the temple
*yihyeh*-*shemî* *leʿôlām*: my name will be forever/my name will remain eternally

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 7:16 : 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 6:6 : 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chr 32:19 : 19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
2 Chr 33:15 : 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.
2 Chr 34:3-4 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 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.
Jer 7:30 : 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.
Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
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.
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 21:4-5 : 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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2 Kgs 21:3-5
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3For 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.
4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chr 33:3
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3For 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.
2 Chr 33:7
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7And 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 21:7
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7And 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 33:15-16
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15And 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.
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3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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2 Chr 3:1
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2 Kgs 23:15
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2 Kgs 23:4
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4And 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 Bethel.
1 Kgs 5:5
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Jer 19:13
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2 Kgs 15:4
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