2 Chronicles 33:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Manasseh  set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple  that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever  , in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:4

He built altars  in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, ‘Jerusalem is where my name will remain for ever.’

2 Chronicles 7:16

And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol  from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I have chosen Jerusalem so that my name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

2 Kings 23:6

He brought out the Asherah pole  from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley,  beat it to dust,  and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.  ,

1 Kings 11:32

but one tribe will remain his for the sake of my servant David  and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:13

Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son  for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.’

1 Kings 8:48

and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city which you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:44

When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to the Lord in the direction of the city which you have chosen and the temple I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:29

so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, towards the place where you said, ‘My name will be there,’ and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays towards this place.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put  my name there for ever;  my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Jeremiah 7:30

‘For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘They have set up their abhorrent things  in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.

Exodus 20:4

Do not make an idol  for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

Judges 17:3

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, ‘I personally consecrate  the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image and a silver idol.  I will give it back to you.’

1 Kings 12:28

So the king sought advice. Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, ‘Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here are your gods  who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there, and I have not chosen a man to be ruler over my people Israel.