2 Kings 21:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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:'

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He 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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah 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, will I put my name for ever;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    A groue Idol also which he had made, set he in the house, wherof the LORDE sayde vnto Dauid and to Salomon his sonne: In this house, and at Ierusalem ( which I haue chosen out of all the trybes of Israel) wil I set my name for euer,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And he set the image of the groue, that he had made, in the house, whereof ye Lord had saide to Dauid & to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And he put an image of a groue that he had made euen in the temple, of which the Lord had sayd to Dauid and Solomon his sonne: in this house and in Hierusalem which I haue chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for euer.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made in the house of which Jehovah said unto David and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name -- to the age;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah 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, will I put my name for ever;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah 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, will I put my name for ever;

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there: that you may listen to the prayer which your servant shall make toward this place.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  • 2 Kgs 21:4 : 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 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.
  • 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 And the LORD said, I will also remove Judah 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 7:12 : 12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.
  • 2 Chr 33:7 : 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 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.
  • Neh 1:9 : 9 But if you turn to Me, and keep My commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out to the farthest part of the heaven, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set My name there.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old; the rod of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed; this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling. 14 This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.
  • 1 Kgs 8:44 : 44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you shall send them, and shall pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name:
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    93%

    7And 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 21:3-6
    4 verses
    81%

    3For 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.

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

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

    6And 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.

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

    20And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

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

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    77%

    16For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  • 2 Chr 6:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    74%

    3And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
    74%

    10He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    74%

    13I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    74%

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

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

    16Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

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

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

    10The LORD therefore has performed his word that he has spoken; for I have risen up in the place 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    73%

    2But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    73%

    10They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

  • 1 Chr 28:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And he said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

    7Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he remains steadfast to obey my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
    73%

    22And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    73%

    7Then 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.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    73%

    5And behold, I plan to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build a house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    73%

    8And they dwelt in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,

  • Judg 18:31
    72%

    31And they set up for themselves Micah's carved image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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

    13The 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.

    14And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6And 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.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    72%

    3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still 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, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images.

  • Jer 7:12
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    72%

    1And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Sam 7:7
    72%

    7In all the places where I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    72%

    15And 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.

  • Acts 7:47
    72%

    47But Solomon built Him a house.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4Behold, I build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn sweet incense before him, and for the continual showbread, 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 forever to Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    72%

    5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:12
    71%

    12As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    71%

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