2 Kings 21:4

New American Bible - revised edition

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said: In Jerusalem I will set my name.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He it is who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

1 Kings 8:29

May your eyes be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there; listen to the prayer your servant makes toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him: I have heard the prayer of petition which you offered in my presence. I have consecrated this house which you have built and I set my name there forever; my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

2 Kings 23:12

He also demolished the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof (the roof terrace of Ahaz), and the altars made by Manasseh in the two courts of the Lord’s house. He pulverized them and threw the dust into the Wadi Kidron.

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said: Even Judah will I put out of my sight as I did Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house of which I said: There shall my name be.

2 Chronicles 6:5

Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any tribe of Israel for the building of a house, that my name might be there; nor have I chosen any man to be ruler of my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 6:6

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth make for me, and sacrifice upon it your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be invoked I will come to you and bless you.

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has so stirred my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, that I must put it out of my sight,

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead they set up their abominations in the house which bears my name in order to defile it.

Jeremiah 32:35

They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech; I never commanded them to do this, nor did it even enter my mind that they would practice this abomination, so as to bring sin upon Judah.

Jeremiah 7:30

The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes—oracle of the Lord. They have set up their detestable things in the house which bears my name, thereby defiling it.

Ezekiel 23:38

And they also did this to me: on that day, they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:39

On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary to desecrate it. Thus they acted within my house!

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you shall seek out the place which the Lord, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as his dwelling to put his name there. There you shall go,