2 Kings 21:3

Good News Translation

He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he built altars for the worship of Baal and made an image of the goddess Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh also worshiped the stars.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah went up to the people and said, “How much longer will it take you to make up your minds? If the Lord is God, worship him; but if Baal is God, worship him!” But the people didn't say a word.

1 Kings 18:26

They took the bull that was brought to them, prepared it, and prayed to Baal until noon. They shouted, “Answer us, Baal!” and kept dancing around the altar they had built. But no answer came.

2 Kings 13:6

But they still did not give up the sins into which King Jeroboam had led Israel, but kept on committing them; and the image of the goddess Asherah remained in Samaria.

2 Kings 17:16

They broke all the laws of the Lord their God and made two metal bull-calves to worship; they also made an image of the goddess Asherah, worshiped the stars, and served the god Baal.

2 Kings 18:22

The Assyrian official went on, “Or will you tell me that you are relying on the Lord your God? It was the Lord's shrines and altars that Hezekiah destroyed, when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship only at the altar in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:4

He destroyed the pagan places of worship, broke the stone pillars, and cut down the images of the goddess Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze snake that Moses had made, which was called Nehushtan. Up to that time the people of Israel had burned incense in its honor.

2 Kings 8:18

His wife was Ahab's daughter, and like the family of Ahab he followed the evil ways of the kings of Israel. He sinned against the Lord,

2 Kings 8:27

Since Ahaziah was related to King Ahab by marriage, he sinned against the Lord, just as Ahab's family did.

2 Chronicles 32:12

He is the one who destroyed the Lord's shrines and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship and burn incense at one altar only.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year that Josiah was king, while he was still very young, he began to worship the God of his ancestor King David. Four years later he began to destroy the pagan places of worship, the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and all the other idols.

Job 31:26

I have never worshiped the sun in its brightness or the moon in all its beauty.

Isaiah 65:11

“But it will be different for you that forsake me, who ignore Zion, my sacred hill, and worship Gad and Meni, the gods of luck and fate.

Jeremiah 7:30

“The people of Judah have done an evil thing. They have placed their idols, which I hate, in my Temple and have defiled it.

Micah 6:16

This will happen because you have followed the evil practices of King Omri and of his son, King Ahab. You have continued their policies, and so I will bring you to ruin, and everyone will despise you. People everywhere will treat you with contempt.”

Deuteronomy 16:21

“When you make an altar for the Lord your God, do not put beside it a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah.

Deuteronomy 17:2

“Suppose you hear that in one of your towns some men or women have sinned against the Lord and broken his covenant

Deuteronomy 17:3

by worshiping and serving other gods or the sun or the moon or the stars, contrary to the Lord's command.

Deuteronomy 20:18

Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against the Lord by teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods.

Deuteronomy 4:19

Do not be tempted to worship and serve what you see in the sky—the sun, the moon, and the stars. The Lord your God has given these to all other peoples for them to worship.