2 Kings 21:4

Legacy Standard Bible

And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

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

1 Kings 8:29

that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your slave shall pray toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3

And Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have set apart as holy this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

2 Kings 23:12

Also, the altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, the king tore down; and he crushed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 23:27

And Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also from My presence, as I have removed Israel. And I will reject Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’ ”

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man for a ruler over My people Israel;

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

Exodus 20:24

You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

Jeremiah 32:31

“Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face

Jeremiah 32:34

But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 32:35

And they built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it come upon My heart that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 7:30

For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares Yahweh, “they have set their detestable things in the house, which is called by My name, to defile it.

Ezekiel 23:38

Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:39

For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, thus they did within My house.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek Yahweh at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.