2 Kings 21:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Kgs 7:12 : 12 And the great court all around was with three rows of cut stones and a row of cedar beams, for the inner court of the house of the LORD and for the porch of the house.
  • 2 Kgs 23:4 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
  • 1 Kgs 6:36 : 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row 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 the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust 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 the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol 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 cast them out of the city.
  • Ezek 40:28 : 28 Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these same measurements.
  • Ezek 40:32 : 32 He brought me into the inner court facing east; he measured the gateway according to these measurements.
  • Ezek 40:37 : 37 Its gateposts faced the outer court; palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps.
  • Ezek 40:47 : 47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare; and the altar was in front of the temple.
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
  • Ezek 43:5 : 5 So the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
  • Ezek 44:19 : 19 And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 33:3-7
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    3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

    4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.'

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

    6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-4
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    2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

    7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah 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, I will put my name forever:'

  • 2 Kgs 23:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

    5 And he removed 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 areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

    32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    75%

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

  • Jer 19:13
    74%

    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    74%

    11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • Zeph 1:5
    74%

    5 And those that worship the host of heaven on the rooftops; and those that worship and that swear by the LORD, and also swear by Milcom;

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    74%

    31 And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Chr 28:2-4
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    74%

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

    3 Moreover, he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
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    74%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol 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 cast them out of the city.

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

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
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    73%

    7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8 And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    73%

    15 And he ordained priests for the high places, for the devils, and for the calves which he made.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
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    73%

    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 the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, 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 broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

    2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    72%

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    72%

    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 Bethel.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
    72%

    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

  • Ezek 8:16
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:21
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:53
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:5
    71%

    5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers all around.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    71%

    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 1 Chr 21:29
    71%

    29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, 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%

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

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12 Has not that same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it?

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • 2 Chr 34:4-5
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    4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Deut 17:3
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    70%

    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 7:7
    70%

    7 Moreover Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.