2 Kings 21:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:36

And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

1 Kings 7:12

The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

2 Kings 23:12

And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

2 Kings 23:5

And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

2 Kings 23:6

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

2 Chronicles 33:5

And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 4:9

Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.

Ezekiel 40:28

Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

Ezekiel 40:32

And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

Ezekiel 40:37

Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Ezekiel 40:47

And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

Ezekiel 42:3

Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

Ezekiel 43:5

And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:19

And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.