2 Kings 21:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And he built [heathen] altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put My Name [and the pledge of My presence].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Common English Bible

⁴ He even built altars in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple—the very place the LORD was speaking of when he said: “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he constructed altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord said: "In Jerusalem, I will place my name."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

2 Kings 21:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

1 Kings 8:29

that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof thou hast said, My name shall be there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3

And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 23:12

And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 23:27

And the LORD 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 Chronicles 6:5

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.

Jeremiah 32:31

For this city hath been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face:

Jeremiah 32:34

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

Jeremiah 32:35

And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination; to cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 7:30

For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Ezekiel 23:38

Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:39

For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: