2 Kings 21:7

Conservative English Version

(SEE 21:6)

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.

1 Kings 8:29

This is the temple where you have chosen to be worshiped. Please watch over it day and night and listen when I turn toward it and pray.

1 Kings 8:44

Our LORD, sometimes you will order your people to attack their enemies. Then your people will turn toward this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you.

1 Kings 9:3

The LORD said: I heard your prayer and what you asked me to do. This temple you have built is where I will be worshiped forever. It belongs to me, and I will never stop watching over it.

1 Kings 9:7

I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshiped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah followed the plans and built an altar exactly like the one in Damascus, finishing it just before Ahaz came back.

2 Kings 21:4

In the temple, where only the LORD was supposed to be worshiped, Manasseh built altars for pagan gods

2 Kings 23:27

The LORD said, "I will desert the people of Judah, just as I deserted the people of Israel. I will reject Jerusalem, even though I chose it to be mine. And I will abandon this temple built to honor me."

2 Kings 23:4

Josiah told Hilkiah the priest, the assistant priests, and the guards at the temple door to go into the temple and bring out the things used to worship Baal, Asherah, and the stars. Josiah had these things burned in Kidron Valley just outside Jerusalem, and he had the ashes carried away to the town of Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

Josiah had the sacred pole for Asherah brought out of the temple and taken to Kidron Valley, where it was burned. He then had its ashes ground into dust and scattered over the public cemetery there.

2 Chronicles 33:15

Manasseh also removed the idols and the stone image of the foreign god from the temple, and he gathered the altars he had built near the temple and in other parts of Jerusalem. He threw all these things outside the city.

2 Chronicles 33:7

(SEE 33:6)

2 Chronicles 6:6

(SEE 6:4)

2 Chronicles 7:12

Some time later, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream and said: I heard your prayer, and I have chosen this temple as the place where sacrifices will be offered to me.

2 Chronicles 7:16

because it belongs to me, and this is where I will be worshiped forever. I will never stop watching over it.

2 Chronicles 7:20

I will pull you out of this land I gave you. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshiped, so that people everywhere will think it is only a joke and will make fun of it.

Nehemiah 1:9

But you also said that no matter how far away we were, we could turn to you and start obeying your laws. Then you would bring us back to the place where you have chosen to be worshiped.

Psalm 74:2

Remember the people you rescued long ago, the tribe you chose to be your very own. Think of Mount Zion, your home;

Psalm 78:58

God demanded all their love, but they made him angry by worshiping idols.

Jeremiah 32:34

They have set up disgusting idols in my temple, and now it isn't a fit place to worship me.

Jeremiah 7:30

You have disobeyed me by putting your disgusting idols in my temple, and now the temple itself is disgusting to me.

Ezekiel 23:38

They came into my temple that same day, and that made it unfit as a place to worship me. They have even stopped respecting the Sabbath.

Deuteronomy 16:21

When you build the altar for offering sacrifices to the LORD your God, don't set up a sacred pole for the worship of the goddess Asherah.