2 Kings 21:7

Modern English Version

He put a carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

1 Kings 8:29

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

1 Kings 8:44

“If Your people go out to battle against their enemy wherever You send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and toward the house that I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and supplication, which you made before Me. I have consecrated this house which you built by putting My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest worked until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said, “I will also remove Judah from before Me, as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”

2 Kings 23:4

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the implements that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. Then he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord to the outside of Jerusalem, to the Kidron Valley. Then he burned it at the Kidron Valley, crushed it to dust, and threw its dust upon the graves of the people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

And he removed the foreign gods and statues from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he built on the hill of the house of the Lord and Jerusalem, and he cast them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 33:7

And the carved image of a statue that he made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem where I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel, there I have set My name perpetually.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to dwell there, and I have selected David to be over My people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night, and He said to Solomon, “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen for Myself in this place a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:16

So now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name be there continually. My eyes and heart will be there for all days.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot them from My land that I have given to them; and the house that I have consecrated for My name, I will throw it from before Me and set it as a proverb and taunt among the peoples.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and bring them back to the place where I have chosen to establish My name.’

Psalm 74:2

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance, and this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

Jeremiah 32:34

But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 7:30

For the Judahites have done evil in My sight, says the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.

Ezekiel 23:38

Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in the same day and have profaned My Sabbaths.

Deuteronomy 16:21

You must not plant for yourself an Asherah of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God, which you make for yourself.