2 Kings 21:7

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Manasseh had an idol of Asherah made. Then he set it up in the temple, where the Lord had said to David and his son Solomon, “I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

1 Kings 8:29

Night and day may your eyes be on this temple, the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’ Listen to me as I pray toward this place.

1 Kings 8:44

“When your people go to war against their enemies (wherever you may send them) and they pray to you, O Lord, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I built for your name,

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer for mercy that you made to me. I have declared that this temple which you have built is holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. Israel will be an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

2 Kings 16:11

Urijah built an altar exactly like the model King Ahaz sent from Damascus. He finished it before Ahaz returned home from Damascus.

2 Kings 21:4

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord had said, “I will put Judah out of my sight as I put Israel out of my sight. I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose, and I will reject the temple where I said my name would be.”

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king ordered the chief priest Hilkiah, the priests who served under Hilkiah, and the doorkeepers to take out of the Lord’s temple all the utensils that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the entire army of heaven. Josiah burned the utensils outside Jerusalem in an open field near the Kidron Brook. Then he carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

He took the pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah from the temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust, and threw its ashes on the tombs of the common people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

Manasseh got rid of the foreign gods and the idol in the Lord’s temple. He got rid of the altars he had built in the temple on the Lord’s mountain and in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in God’s temple, where God had said to David and his son Solomon, “I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I’ve chosen Jerusalem to be a place for my name; I’ve chosen David to rule my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to him at night. He said to Solomon, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 7:16

I have chosen and declared this temple holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

Nehemiah 1:9

But if you return to me and continue to obey my commandments, though your people may be driven to the most distant point on the horizon, I will come and get you from there and bring you to the place where I chose to put my name.’

Psalm 74:2

Remember your congregation. Long ago you made it your own. You bought this tribe to be your possession. This tribe is Mount Zion, where you have made your home.

Psalm 78:58

They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up their detestable idols in the temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.

Jeremiah 7:30

The people of Judah have done what I consider evil,” declares the Lord. “They set up their detestable idols in the house that is called by my name. They have made it unclean.

Ezekiel 23:38

They have also done this to me: They have polluted my holy places when they do these things and dishonored the days to worship me.

Deuteronomy 16:21

When you build the altar for the Lord your God, never plant beside it any tree dedicated to the goddess Asherah.