2 Kings 21:7

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;

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  • 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.
  • 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 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
  • 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 Yahweh 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 7:12 : 12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
  • 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 7:20 : 20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
  • 2 Chr 33:7 : 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 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.
  • Neh 1:9 : 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, Which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
  • 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.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:44 : 44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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  • 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 21:3-6
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    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 host of the sky, and served them.

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

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

    6He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

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    20Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room 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.

    21There have I 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.

  • 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 33:4-5
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    4He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

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

  • 12Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

  • 2 Chr 6:6-7
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    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 Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 for ever.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    10Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room 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 have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.

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

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

  • 10and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • 20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • 1 Chr 28:6-7
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    6He 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.

    7I will establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.

  • 22and I 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 have made Israel to sin.

  • 7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 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 room, he shall build the house for my name.

  • 8They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,

  • 31So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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    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.

    14He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

  • 6He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.

  • 3For 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.

  • 12But go you 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.

  • 1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

  • 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.

  • 47But Solomon built him a house.

  • 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.

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

  • 7He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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

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

  • 12Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

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