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2 Kings 21:4

And he built [pagan] altars in the house (temple) of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name (Presence)."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Groves;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Manasseh;   Rulers;   Temple;   The Topic Concordance - Jerusalem;   Name;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Kings;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manasseh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Manasseh, king of judah;   Temple;   Zephaniah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Ethics;   Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abomination of Desolation;   Manasseh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baal;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Israel;   Manasseh;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Manasseh ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Moloch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Manasseh;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moloch;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alliance;   High Place;   Idolatry;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put my name.”
Hebrew Names Version
He built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Yerushalayim will I put my name.
King James Version
And he built altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
English Standard Version
And he built altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."
New Century Version
The Lord had said about the Temple, "I will be worshiped in Jerusalem," but Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the Lord .
New English Translation
He built altars in the Lord 's temple, about which the Lord had said, "Jerusalem will be my home."
New American Standard Bible
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
World English Bible
He built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, of the which the Lorde saide, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
Berean Standard Bible
Manasseh also 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 pagan gods
Complete Jewish Bible
He erected altars in the house of Adonai , about which Adonai had said, "In Yerushalayim I will put my name."
Darby Translation
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Easy-to-Read Version
He built altars to honor false gods in the Lord 's Temple. (This is the place the Lord was talking about when he said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem.")
George Lamsa Translation
And he built an altar in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Good News Translation
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the Lord had said was where he should be worshiped.
Lexham English Bible
He built altars in the temple of Yahweh about which Yahweh had said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."
Literal Translation
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem I will put My name.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And buylded altares in the LORDES house, wherof the LORDE sayde: I wyll set my name at Ierusalem.
American Standard Version
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Bible in Basic English
And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lord, of which the Lorde sayde: in Hierusalem will I put my name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem will I put My name.'
King James Version (1611)
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord sayd, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.
English Revised Version
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bildide auteris in the hows of the Lord, of which the Lord seide, Y schal sette my name in Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
New King James Version
He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
New Living Translation
He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord , the place where the Lord had said, "My name will remain in Jerusalem forever."
New Life Bible
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
New Revised Standard
He built altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my name."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh, - concerning which Yahweh had said, - In Jerusalem, will I put 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.
Revised Standard Version
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."
Young's Literal Translation
And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah said, `In Jerusalem I put My name.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."

Contextual Overview

1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. 2He did [great] evil in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with the [idolatrous] repulsive acts of the [pagan] nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons (descendants) of Israel. 3For he rebuilt the high places [for the worship of pagan gods] which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he set up altars for Baal and made an [image of] Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the [starry] host of heaven and served them. 4And he built [pagan] altars in the house (temple) of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name (Presence)."5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. 6He made his son pass through the fire and burned him [as an offering to Molech]; he practiced witchcraft and divination, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 7He made a carved image of the [goddess] Asherah and set it up in the house (temple), of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem [in the tribe of Judah], which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name forever. 8"And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to act in accordance with everything that I have commanded them, and with all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." 9But they did not listen; and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons (descendants) of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he built: 2 Kings 16:10-16, Jeremiah 32:34

In Jerusalem: Exodus 20:24, Deuteronomy 12:5, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, 1 Kings 9:3, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 78:69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:13 - for Jerusalem's 2 Kings 21:7 - In this house 2 Kings 23:5 - all the host 2 Kings 23:27 - My name 2 Chronicles 7:16 - my name 2 Chronicles 33:4 - he built Jeremiah 7:10 - which is called Jeremiah 7:30 - they Jeremiah 11:13 - up altars Jeremiah 19:4 - estranged Jeremiah 32:31 - this city Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 7:20 - but Ezekiel 23:38 - they have Ezekiel 23:39 - thus Ezekiel 43:8 - setting 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what

Cross-References

Genesis 21:10
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac."
Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, "Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac.
Genesis 21:22
Now at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do;
Genesis 21:23
so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me [by breaking any agreements we have] or with my son or with my descendants, but as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me and to the land in which you have sojourned (temporarily lived)."
Exodus 12:48
"If a stranger living temporarily among you wishes to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may participate and celebrate it like one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
Leviticus 12:3
'On the eighth day the flesh of the male child's foreskin shall be circumcised.
Deuteronomy 12:32
"Everything I command you, you shall be careful to do it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
Luke 1:6
They both were righteous (approved) in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.
Luke 1:59
It happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child [as required by the Law], and they intended to name him Zacharias, after his father;
Luke 2:21
At the end of eight days, when He was to be circumcised, He was named Jesus, the name given [to Him] by the angel [Gabriel] before He was conceived in the womb.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he built altars in the house of the Lord,.... In the holy place, as distinct from the courts in the next verse; and these were sacred to the idols of the Gentiles:

of which the Lord said, in Jerusalem will I put my name; in the temple there, devoted to his service, called by his name, and where his name was called upon, see Deuteronomy 12:5 and to erect altars to idols here must be very abominable to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “altars” of this verse seem to be the same with those of 2 Kings 21:5, and consequently were not in the temple building, but in the outer and inner courts.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 21:4. Built altars — He placed idolatrous altars even in the temple.


 
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