◄ 2 Kings 21:4 ►
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Good News Translation
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped.

New Revised Standard Version
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”

Contemporary English Version
In the temple, where only the LORD was supposed to be worshiped, Manasseh built altars for the worship of pagan gods

New American Bible
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said: In Jerusalem I will set my name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

he built.

2 Kings 16:10-16 And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof. . . .

Jeremiah 32:34 And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is called upon, to defile it.

In Jerusalem.

Exodus 20:24 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

Deuteronomy 12:5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever.

1 Kings 8:29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always.

Psalm 78:68,69 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. . . .

Psalm 132:13,14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling. . . .

Context
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
…3And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them. 4And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.5And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever.

1 Kings 8:29
That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

2 Kings 16:10
And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof.

Jeremiah 32:31
For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

Ezekiel 23:38
Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

2 Kings 21:3
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