2 Chronicles 33:4

World English Bible (2000)

He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever."

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  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my 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 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, 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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images. 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
  • Jer 7:30 : 30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
  • 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;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem." 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    93%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

    4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."

    5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    79%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    79%

    7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God 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:

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    77%

    7 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;

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    73%

    8 They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

    35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
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    72%

    3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    72%

    12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?'

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-5
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    72%

    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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

    4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

    5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    72%

    32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen."

  • 2 Chr 28:24-25
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    71%

    24 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 Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    71%

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    71%

    7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    71%

    17 "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Gen 13:4
    71%

    4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

  • Jer 32:34
    70%

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

  • Ps 78:69
    70%

    69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    70%

    13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • Jer 33:4
    70%

    4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    70%

    1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    70%

    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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    70%

    4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    70%

    5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.'

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    69%

    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 16:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

    12 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

  • Jer 11:13
    69%

    13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    69%

    2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • Josh 22:23
    69%

    23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    69%

    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    69%

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