He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
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He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 21:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
- 2 Kings 23:4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, 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 their ashes to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:12 The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
- 2 Kings 23:6 He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Chronicles 33:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
- Ezekiel 40:28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;
- Ezekiel 40:32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
- Ezekiel 40:37 Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
- Ezekiel 42:3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.
- Ezekiel 43:5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
- Ezekiel 44:19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 21:5 And he built altars for all the…
2Ki 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
Ver. 5. In the two courts of the house of the Lord.] Both in the priests’ court, and in the people’s also, poured he forth his whoredoms: as being acted and agitated by a spirit of fornication, an impetus to idolatry. He was worse than his contemporary Numa, king of Romans, who filled the people’s heads with all sorts of superstitions, and so increased the number of the gods, that he left no room for himself to be placed amongst them, as Augustine saith wittily. {a}
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{a} De Civ. Dei, lib. xviii, cap. 24.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The one of the priests, the other of the…
The one of the priests, the other of the people, 1Ki 6:36.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he built altars for all the host of…
And he built altars for all the host of heaven,.... Sun, moon, and stars:
in the two courts of the house of the Lord; in the court of the priests, and in the court of the people; and all this must be supposed to be done, not as soon as he began to reign, but when he was grown up to man's estate, and had children, as the next verse shows; unless it can be thought that those nobles in Judah, who liked not the reformation made by Hezekiah, took the advantage of his youth, and advised him to these idolatries.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the two courts of the house of the Lord--the…
the two courts of the house of the Lord--the court of the priests, and the large court of the people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. the two courts of the house of the…
5. the two courts of the house of the Lord] On the two courts of the temple, spoken of respectively as ‘the inner’ or ‘higher’ court, or ‘the court of the priests, and ‘the great court’ which must have enclosed the inner, see note on 1Ki_6:36.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) In the two courts.—Even in the inner and…
(5) In the two courts.—Even in the inner and more sacred court, where the sacrifices were offered to Jehovah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he built altars for all the host of…
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. The temple of Solomon had two courts only, an inner and an outer. The outer court was for the people, the inner for the priests and Levites. Manasseh desecrated the temple to the extent of setting up in each of these two courts an idolatrous altar, dedicated to the worship of the host of heaven. In the inner court his altar was a rival to the great brazen altar of Solomon (1Ki_9:6; 2Ch_4:1) which Ahaz had for a time removed from its place in front of the porch, (2Ki_16:14) but which Hezekiah had most certainly reinstated.
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