2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”
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- 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
- 2 Chr 6:6 : 6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’
- 2 Chr 32:19 : 19 They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.
- 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem; 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 his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images. 4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
- Jer 7:30 : 30 The LORD says,“I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.
- Deut 12:11 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
- 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
- 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
- 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my home.” 5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
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- 2 Kgs 21:3-53 verses93%
3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
4 He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my home.”
5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
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5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
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3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
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7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God 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.
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7 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.
- 2 Chr 33:15-162 verses76%
15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
16 He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
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32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.
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8 They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,
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35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple.
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2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.
- 2 Chr 27:3-42 verses72%
3 He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.
4 He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
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12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD’s high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem,“At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
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4 Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the LORD our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.
- 2 Chr 34:3-53 verses72%
3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.
4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
5 He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.
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32 because the message that he announced as the LORD’s message against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled.”
- 2 Chr 28:24-252 verses71%
24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the LORD’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.
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16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
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1 David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”
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7 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.
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13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
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4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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17 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.
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4 This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.
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34 They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.
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69 He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.
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3 The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
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13 O LORD, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
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4 For I, the LORD God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings of Judah which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians:
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1 The Building of the Temple Solomon began building the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.
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4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, and the guards to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. The king burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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5 So I have decided to build a temple to honor the LORD my God, as the LORD instructed my father David,‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’
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13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”
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4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 2 Kgs 16:11-122 verses69%
11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.
12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.
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13 This is in spite of the fact that the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!’
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2 O LORD, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
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23 If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.
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13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.
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4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
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12 He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.