2 Kings 21:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ For he turned and built the high places which Ḥ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For he built up 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 [starry] hosts of the heavens and served them!

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For 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 worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Common English Bible

³ He rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made a sacred pole, just as Israel’s King Ahab had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshipped them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he turned away. And he built up the high places that his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. And he erected altars to Baal, and he made sacred groves, just as Ahab, the king of Israel, had done. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.

2 Kings 21:3 Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

And Ě

1 Kings 18:26

So they took the bull which was given them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baʽ

2 Kings 13:6

However, they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Yaroḇ

2 Kings 17:16

And they left all the commands of יהוה  their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Ashĕ

2 Kings 18:22

“But when you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה  our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Ḥ

2 Kings 18:4

He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashĕ

2 Kings 8:18

And he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 8:27

And he walked in the way of the house of Aḥ

2 Chronicles 32:12

‘Has not Ḥ

2 Chronicles 34:3

And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ

Job 31:26

if I have looked at the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in brightness,

Isaiah 65:11

“But you are those who forsake יהוה, who forget My set-apart mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni.

Jeremiah 7:30

“For the children of Yehuḏ

Micah 6:16

“For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥ

Deuteronomy 16:21

“Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Ashĕ

Deuteronomy 17:2

“When there is found in your midst, in any of your cities which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of יהוה  your Elohim, in transgressing His covenant,

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 20:18

lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against יהוה  your Elohim.

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the heavens – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which יהוה  your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.