2 Kings 21:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  • 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.
  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • 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 16:10-16 : 10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. 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. 13 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar. 14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." 16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. 14 "This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    93%

    3For 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.

    4He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever."

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:5
    84%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    81%

    7He 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 33:7
    79%

    7He 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 21:3
    76%

    3For 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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15He 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.

    16He 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 8:20-21
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    73%

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Ahaz 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.

    25In 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
    72%

    16For 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 21:11
    72%

    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

  • 2 Chr 6:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel."

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    72%

    1Then 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 15:35
    72%

    35However 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 8:17
    72%

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

  • Jer 7:12
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    72%

    5Behold, 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.'

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    72%

    13The 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 2:4
    71%

    4Behold, 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.

  • Jer 19:13
    71%

    13and 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 Chr 1:4
    71%

    4But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 34:4
    71%

    4They 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.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    71%

    12Hasn'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 Kgs 23:4
    71%

    4The 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15Moreover 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.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 32:34
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    71%

    3Yahweh 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.

  • Gen 13:4
    71%

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

  • Jer 7:30
    71%

    30For 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.

  • 1 Chr 22:7
    71%

    7David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    71%

    7He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:27
    71%

    27Yahweh said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.'"

  • 2 Chr 27:4
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    70%

    32For 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."

  • Jer 7:14
    70%

    14therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    70%

    19All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    70%

    19He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    70%

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